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AWS for System Administrators
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AWS for System Administrators

by Prashant Lakhera
February 2021
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
388 pages
6h 45m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 8: Monitoring AWS Services Using CloudWatch and SNS

Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring service used to monitor your resources and applications running in Amazon Web Services (AWS). CloudWatch can monitor things such as Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes, Relational Database Service (RDS) databases, and Simple Queue Service (SQS) queues.

To get a complete list of services that publish CloudWatch metrics, please refer to the following link:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/aws-services-cloudwatch-metrics.html

The chapter will start by setting up CloudWatch monitoring. We will further examine how to push custom metrics—such as swap, network, and disk space utilization—to ...

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