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AWS CloudWatch

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Summary

Amazon CloudWatch is a centralized monitoring service that collects metrics, log, and events from AWS as well as custom applications. Users can create dashboards, alarms, and SNS notifications, even automated actions such as scaling. With CloudWatch Logs Insights, finding patterns within a set of log becomes easy and quick.

Key points

Inbuilt metrics (AWS/EC2 namespace) and custom metrics
Alarms can trigger SNS, scaling, up to Lambda
Dashboard for visualizing the status of service in one screen
CloudWatch Logs to collect, filter, and query
Metric math allows analysis of the combinations of several metrics

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