Amazon Cloudwatch is a monitoring tool for AWS resources, services and applications that display metrics and create alarms to send notifications. It also spontaneously makes changes to resources that is under monitoring when a threshold is hit. Amazon CloudWatch offers detailed insight via wide-ranging reports and metrics to ensure robust, seamless and effective operations. CloudWatch also delivers reports on business resource use, performance, operational issues and constraints.
Sources
CloudWatch logs can come from a number of sources such as:
• Logs generated by Web server like Nginx, IIS
• Logs created by database server like MongoDB , Mysql , PostgreSQL, SQL Server
• Operating system like Linux, windows logs
• Logs generated by Lambda functions service
• Logs generated by CloudTrail events
Metrics
Amazon Cloudwatch supports to track a wide variety of helpful metrics, including:
• The number of CPU credits spent by the instance for CPU utilization
• The number of earned CPU credits that an instance has accrued since it was launched or started.
• The number of surplus credits that have been spent by an unlimited instance when its CPUCreditBalance value is zero.
• The percentage of allocated EC2 compute units that are currently in use on the instance.
• Completed read operations from all instance store volumes available to the instance in a specified period of time.
• Completed write operations to all instance store volumes available to the instance in a specified period of time.
• Completed read operations from all Amazon EBS volumes attached to the instance in a specified period of time.
• Completed write operations to all EBS volumes attached to the instance in a specified period of time.
• Bytes read from all EBS volumes attached to the instance in a specified period of time.
• Bytes written to all EBS volumes attached to the instance in a specified period of time.
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