Chapter 5: Setting Up Container Insights on Amazon CloudWatch

The previous chapter focused on monitoring some AWS compute resources such as Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Elastic Beanstalk. We also spent some time setting up the unified CloudWatch Agent in an EC2 instance to send logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs. We now understand Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS), which are different methods of cloud delivery. We also looked at the metrics that make up the IaaS cloud setup, and then for PaaS, we set up Elastic Beanstalk and described how monitoring works in Elastic Beanstalk applications.

Let's understand what objectives we will cover by the end of this chapter. Since containers are pretty different from

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