CloudWatch Deep Dive

Matthias Jung, Solutions Architect AWS

What to expect

• Why Monitor?

• CloudWatch 101– Metrics

– Dashboards

– Log processing

• Demos

Why monitor?

My Application

Why monitor? (cont’d)

• Customer Experience

- Are my customers getting a good experience?

• Performance & Cost

- How are my changes impacting overall performance?

• Trends

- Do I need to scale?

• Troubleshooting & Remediation

- Where did the problem occur?

• Learning & Improvement

- Can I detect or prevent this problem in the future?

Amazon CloudWatch

Metrics

Alarms

Log Data

Integration

Monitoring for Amazon Web Services

Demo

Managing, Monitoring & Processing Logs

• CloudWatch Logs Features

- Near real-time, aggregate, monitor, store, and search

• Amazon Elasticsearch Service Integration

- Analytics and Kibana interface

• AWS Lambda & Amazon Kinesis Integration

- Custom processing with your code

• Export to S3

- SDK & CLI batch export of logs

Wrap Up

• Amazon CloudWatch & Monitoring Overview

• Amazon CloudWatch Dashboards

• Amazon Route 53 Health Check Latency Monitoring

• Amazon Elastic Beanstalk Enhanced Monitoring

• Amazon Elasticsearch Service integration

• AWS Lambda integration

• Amazon Kinesis Integration