Monitoring integration pattern

One of the many great things about the AWS ecosystem is the amount of tooling at your disposal. A very large portion of work for any operations team is the monitoring of the systems' health. These checks could be scratch-level checks such as CPU usage, RAM information, and disk information. However, monitoring applications is not an easy task.

When it comes to knowing whether or not a system is actually performing, it is more than just knowing if the hardware is fine: it's about knowing a slew of other information that changes based on the perspective of the operations team as well as the architecture of the application itself.

If it is a Java application, is the JVM configured and running as expected? If it's a PHP ...

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