(SDD418) Amazon CloudWatch Deep Dive | AWS re:Invent 2014

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In this session, we go deep on best practices for you to get the most out of Amazon CloudWatch. Learn how you can use new service metrics to keep even more of your systems and applications running smoothly. See how CloudWatch Logs can help you monitor your logs in near‑real time for events you care about and store the log data in low cost, highly durable storage. Hear about best practices to retrieve Amazon Web Services metrics from CloudWatch using the API. Get a demonstration of how you can use the Amazon EC2 configuration service to monitor applications and events on Windows Server.

Transcript of (SDD418) Amazon CloudWatch Deep Dive | AWS re:Invent 2014

Amazon Web Services

Your metrics

Your logs

• Analysis – Trusted Advisor

• Integration with other monitoring

• Programmatic access

• IAM permissions

• API

• Request throughput

• Late arriving data

list-metrics

get-metric-statistics

//Pseudo-putting-it-together

RetrieveMetrics(metricFilters, startTime, endTime, period)

{

Items result = new Items();

//Loop through metrics matching filters for timerange

foreach(Metric m in ListMetrics(metricFilters))

{

result.Add(GetMetricStatistics(m, startTime, endTime, period));

}

return result;

}

Monitor and alert

Centralized access

Archive

Metric filters – Literal terms

Metric filters – Common log format

Metric filters – JSON

Recent improvements

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