AWS Cloud Practitioner: CloudWatch 101

In this short series, I outline the notes that I took while preparing for the AWS Cloud Practitioner exam.

These are my personal notes that I have made while working through the A Cloud Guru exam practitioner course. They are in no way official notes from AWS.

I would advise you that if you do use my notes to help you revise for this exam, that you use them as a supplement to the most recent information in the White PapersExam Guide and go over your knowledge with practice exam papers.

Previous notes within this blog series:

CloudWatch 101

What is Cloudwatch?

  • A monitoring service to monitor your AWS resources, as well as the applications that you run on AWS.
  • Monitors performance
  • CloudWatch with EC2 will monitor events every 5 minutes by default
  • You can have 1 minute intervals by turning on detailed monitoring
  • You can create CloudWatch alarms which trigger notifications
  • CloudWatch is all about monitoring performance

What Can CloudWatch Monitor?

  • Can monitor things like:
    • Compute: EC2 instances, Autoscaling Groups, Elastic Load Balancers, Route53 Health Checks
    • Storage & Content Delivery: EBS Volumes, Storage Gateway, CloudFront

CloudWatch and EC2

Host Level Metrics consist of:

  • CPU
  • Network
  • Disk
  • Status Check

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