AWS DevOps Pro Certification Blog Post Series: CloudWatch


This is part of the blog post series: AWS DevOps Pro Certification

Caveat emptor

Using AWS costs money, some of these services may not be part of the AWS Free Tier. You can keep costs down by tearing down anything you've created whilst learning, but it's still possible to run up a hefty bill so pay attention to the instances you setup!

I'm very lucky to be able to use my employer's AWS account. You should ask your place of work if a similar arrangement can be made as part of your study.

Velocius quam asparagi conquantur

The format of the blog posts is liable to change as I try to refine my mental model of each domain, so be sure to revisit the blog posts on a regular basis.

What?

CloudWatch...

Metric retention periods

Additional resources:

Why?

CloudWatch enables you to aggregate your logging and metrics into a centralised location. You can then perform analysis or visualise the data. Furthermore, you can use Alarms and Events to notify your team or perform automatic reactive action.

When?

You should use the CloudWatch Agent to gather metrics and logs from your EC2 instances or on-premises servers (Linux or Windows based).

You should use the AWS CLI if you only need to publish custom metrics from your EC2 instance or on-premises servers.

How?

TODO: Unfortunately I've found these sections have been eating up a lot of my study time. I will try and revisit this during my revision stage.

Here's what I had planned for this section:

API and CLI features and verbs

I'd hazard the guess the one API/CLI call you need to be familiar with is put-metric-data CLIAPI because it's got an immediate and practical use and isn't possible through the AWS Console.

Features

Verbs (CRUD)

Outliers

AWS DevOps Pro Certification Blog Post Series



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