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Infrastructure Monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch: Effectively monitor your AWS infrastructure to optimize resource allocation,detect anomalies,and set automated actions
by 作者: Ewere Diagboya
Publisher Finelybook 出版社: Packt Publishing (April 16,2021)
Language 语言: English
pages 页数: 314 pages
ISBN-10 书号: 1800566050
ISBN-13 书号: 9781800566057
Book Description
Explore real-world examples of issues with systems and find ways to resolve them using Amazon CloudWatch as a monitoring service
Key Features
Become well-versed with monitoring fundamentals such as understanding the building blocks and architecture of networking
Learn how to ensure your applications never face downtime
Get hands-on with observing serverless applications and services
Book Description
CloudWatch is Amazon's monitoring and observability service,designed to help those in the IT industry who are interested in optimizing resource utilization,visualizing operational health,and eventually increasing infrastructure performance. This book helps IT administrators,DevOps engineers,network engineers,and solutions architects to make optimum use of this cloud service for effective infrastructure productivity.
You'll start with a brief introduction to monitoring and Amazon CloudWatch and its core functionalities. Next,you'll get to grips with CloudWatch features and their usability. Once the book has helped you develop your foundational knowledge of CloudWatch,you'll be able to build your practical skills in monitoring and alerting various Amazon Web Services,such as EC2,EBS,RDS,ECS,EKS,DynamoDB,AWS Lambda,and ELB,with the help of real-world use cases. As you progress,you'll also learn how to use CloudWatch to detect anomalous behavior,set alarms,visualize logs and metrics,define automated actions,and rapidly troubleshoot issues. Finally,the book will take you through monitoring AWS billing and costs.
By the end of this book,you'll be capable of making decisions that enhance your infrastructure performance and maintain it at its peak.
What you will learn
Understand the meaning and importance of monitoring
Explore the components of a basic monitoring system
Understand the functions of CloudWatch Logs,metrics,and dashboards
Discover how to collect different types of metrics from EC2
Configure Amazon EventBridge to integrate with different AWS services
Get up to speed with the fundamentals of observability and the AWS services used for observability
Find out about the role Infrastructure As Code (IaC) plays in monitoring
Gain insights into how billing works using different CloudWatch features
Who this book is for
This book is for developers,DevOps engineers,site reliability engineers,or any IT individual with hands-on intermediate-level experience in networking,cloud computing,and infrastructure management. A beginner-level understanding of AWS and application monitoring will also be helpful to grasp the concepts covered in the book more effectively.
Table of contents
Introduction to Monitoring
CloudWatch Events and Alarms
CloudWatch Logs,Metrics,and Dashboards
Monitoring AWS Compute Services
Setting Up Container Insights on Amazon CloudWatch
Performance Insights for Database Services
Monitoring Serverless Applications
Using CloudWatch for Maintaining Highly Available Big Data Services
Monitoring Storage Services with Amazon CloudWatch
Monitoring Network Services
Best Practices and Conclusion
