Infrastructure Monitoring With Amazon Cloud Watch

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Table of Contents
Preface
Section 1: Introduction to Monitoring and Amazon CloudWatch
Chapter 1: Introduction to Monitoring
	Technical requirements
	Introducing monitoring
		The history of monitoring
	Discovering the types of monitoring
		Proactive monitoring
		Reactive monitoring
	Understanding the components of monitoring
		Alerts/notifications
		Events
		Logging
		Metrics
		System availability
		Dashboard
		Incidents
		Realizing when things go south
		Ability to debug
		Gaining insight
		Sending data/notifications to other systems
		Controlling CapEX to run cloud infrastructure
	Getting to know Amazon CloudWatch
	Introducing the relationship between Amazon CloudWatch and Well-Architected
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 2: CloudWatch Events and Alarms
	Technical requirements
	Introducing CloudWatch Events and Amazon EventBridge
		Amazon EventBridge
	Understanding the components of a CloudWatch event
		Input trigger
		Rules/event pattern
		Target
	Configuring a basic CloudWatch event
	Introducing CloudWatch alarms
		Importance of a CloudWatch alarm
	Configuring a basic alarm
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 3: CloudWatch Logs, Metrics, and Dashboards
	Technical requirements
	Introducing CloudWatch Logs
		Life cycle of a log
		Understanding the components of CloudWatch Logs
		Configuring a basic CloudWatch agent
	Understanding metrics and CloudWatch metrics
		Terms associated with CloudWatch metrics
		Creating a metric filter from CloudWatch Logs
	Working with dashboards
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Section 2: AWS Services and Amazon CloudWatch
Chapter 4: Monitoring AWS Compute Services
	Technical requirements
	Understanding the fundamentals of IaaS monitoring
		Understanding CPU in IaaS
		Understanding memory in IaaS
		Understanding the disk in IaaS
	Collecting custom metrics on EC2
		Using a unified CloudWatch agent
	Creating an Amazon EventBridge for Amazon EC2
	Monitoring Elastic Beanstalk workloads
	Monitoring AWS Batch
	Case study on CloudWatch custom metrics
		Solution
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 5: Setting Up Container Insights on Amazon CloudWatch
	Technical requirements
	Introducing the concept of containers
	Orchestrating container services in AWS
		Overviewing Amazon ECS
		Overviewing Amazon EKS
	Triggering ECS events on Amazon EventBridge
	Configuring CloudWatch Container Insights
		Why activate Container Insights?
		Activating Container Insights for ECS
		Collecting logs for ECS applications
	Monitoring of EKS applications and services
		Monitoring the control plane
		Collecting logs for EKS resources
	Setting up custom dashboards and metrics for containers
	Case study of Amazon EKS logging and monitoring
		Solution
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 6: Performance Insights for Database Services
	Technical requirements
	Introduction to database management
	Understanding the different types of AWS database technologies
		RDS
		DynamoDB
		ElastiCache
		Amazon DocumentDB
	Configuring metric monitoring in RDS
	Logging operations in Amazon DynamoDB
	Monitoring events in ElastiCache
	Monitoring Redshift and Amazon DocumentDB cluster status
		Monitoring Redshift
		Monitoring an Amazon DocumentDB cluster
	Case study on monitoring an RDS database
		Solution
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 7: Monitoring Serverless Applications
	Technical requirements
	Introduction to serverless
	Differentiating between serverless and managed services
	Monitoring Lambda function metrics with Amazon CloudWatch
	Endpoint monitoring for API Gateway and other applications
	Monitoring SQS and SNS on Amazon CloudWatch
	Monitoring Step Functions using CloudWatch alarms
	Case study on Lambda tracing with Amazon X-Ray
		Solution
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 8: Using CloudWatch for Maintaining Highly Available Big Data Services
	Technical requirements
	Introduction to big data
		Properties of big data
	Overviewing the aspects of big data
		Extraction
		Transformation
		Loading
	Monitoring Amazon Kinesis agent/service
	Analyzing Amazon CloudTrail with Amazon Athena
	Monitoring AWS Glue jobs with CloudWatch alarms
	Case study on monitoring a Kinesis stream
		Solution
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 9: Monitoring Storage Services with Amazon CloudWatch
	Technical requirements
	Understanding storage devices
		EBS
		S3
		EFS
	Monitoring Amazon EBS volume metrics
	Understanding the performance metrics of Amazon EFS on CloudWatch
	Monitoring of Amazon FSx
	Understanding CloudWatch metrics on Amazon S3
	Case study regarding a consolidated EBS volume dashboard
		Solution
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 10: Monitoring Network Services
	Technical requirements
	Introduction to computer networking
		Understanding a few common networking terms
		Exploring AWS networking services
	Monitoring Amazon VPC flow logs
	Understanding the behavior of a load balancer with status metrics
	Application observability with App Mesh and Cloud Map
		AWS Cloud Map
	Configuring logging in Amazon Route 53
	Case study on VPC analysis
		Solution
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 11: Best Practices and Conclusion
	Best methods used in monitoring
		Automate everything
		Audit monitoring configurations from time to time
		Measuring workload performance
		Ensuring important metrics go with alarms
	An explanation of CloudWatch billing
	Summarizing everything learned so far
	Summary
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