Understanding CloudWatch

As mentioned earlier, CloudWatch is the logging and monitoring service of AWS. We have already looked at and learned about the CloudWatch Alarms, which are a sub-feature of CloudWatch. We will now learn about the graphing suite of the service. Almost every service in the AWS environment has a way to send it's logs and metrics to CloudWatch for logging and monitoring purposes. Each service might have several metrics which can be monitored, depending on the function.

Similarly, AWS Lambda also has some metrics, such as the invocation count, the invocation's running time, and so on, which it sends to CloudWatch. It is also helpful to note that the developers can also send custom metrics to CloudWatch. So in the following ...

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