Amazon cloud watch

Amazon CloudWatch is a comprehensive monitoring and observability service from AWS, designed to provide insights into the performance and health of AWS resources, applications, and on-premises systems. It collects and tracks metrics such as CPU utilization, memory usage, and network activity, while also aggregating and managing logs from services like EC2, Lambda, and RDS. With features like alarms, CloudWatch allows users to set thresholds on metrics and automate actions or send notifications using Amazon SNS. Its customizable dashboards enable real-time visualization of metrics and logs, simplifying performance analysis and troubleshooting. Additionally, CloudWatch supports anomaly detection, root cause analysis, and integrates seamlessly with other AWS services to optimize system performance, cost, and reliability.

1. Metrics Monitoring:

Collect and monitor metrics from AWS services (e.g., EC2, Lambda, RDS) and custom metrics.

Metrics provide performance data such as CPU utilization, disk usage, and network throughput.

2. Logs Management:

Aggregate and store application and infrastructure logs.

Search, filter, and analyze logs for debugging and troubleshooting.

Centralized logging with log streams for services like EC2, Lambda, and ECS.

3. Alarms and Notifications:

Create alarms to monitor metrics and set thresholds.

Trigger notifications or automated actions using Amazon SNS or AWS Auto Scaling.

4. Dashboards:

Create customizable dashboards to visualize metrics and logs.

Combine multiple data s

ources for holistic monitoring.