Chapter 5. Monitoring Amazon EC2 Instances
In this chapter, we will cover recipes for:
- Collecting EC2 metrics using AWS CloudWatch
- Collecting custom metrics from EC2 instances
- Monitoring costs using CloudWatch
- Sending an e-mail based on a CloudWatch alarm
- Using CloudWatch Logs
Introduction
Amazon CloudWatch is AWS's monitoring service. It can be used to monitor your applications and AWS resources. AWS CloudWatch works with all key AWS services including EC2, RDS, DynamoDB, Elastic MapReduce, Kinesis, CloudSearch, and so on. CloudWatch provides several out-of-the-box metrics such as CPU utilization, network utilization, and disk I/O metrics from EC2 instances. However, you can also collect custom metrics from your applications.
AWS Management Console can ...
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