Let's go through some important concepts related to CloudWatch:
- The CloudWatch service consists of three components, namely the CloudWatch component, the CloudWatch logs component, and the CloudWatch events component, all of which can be accessed from the console and using APIs and the CLI. Let's go over what these components do:
- The CloudWatch component support alarms, metrics, and dashboards.
- The logs component provides log streams and log groups so that we can log data from our applications.
- The events component support notifications and also auto-remediation using AWS Lambda.
- AWS provides us with some metrics out of the box and also allows us to create custom metrics for our applications.
- We can see the metrics that ...