The CloudWatch agent allows you to collect custom metrics from Windows and Linux instances such as CPU, disk, memory, network, and processes. In this video, learn about the use cases for installing the CloudWatch agent.
- [Instructor] Amazon CloudWatch provides an agent … that can be used to collect system-level metrics … and logs from EC2 instances and on-premises servers. … This is available for Amazon Linux, … Ubuntu, CentOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, … and Windows operating system. … The metrics collected by the agent … can be stored and viewed in CloudWatch … just like other system default metrics. … Let's walk through the steps needed to install the agent. … The agent will be used … to collect memory utilization details from an EC2 instance. … Before installing the agent, we need to create an IAM role. … This will be used by the agent … to write metrics to CloudWatch. … I'll first navigate to the IAM service. … I'll then click Roles on the left navigation pane … and then click the button Create role. … On the next step, I'll select EC2 as a service … that will use this role. … This will allow the role to be used by EC2 instances … to call AWS services. … Then I'll click Next: Permissions. … On this step, we need to attach a permissions policy. …
Author
Shyam Raj
Released
12/12/2019- Exploring monitoring tools
- The basics of CloudWatch
- Using CloudWatch alarms
- Monitoring ELB latency
- Monitoring SQS, SNS, and Elastic Beanstalk
- Using AWS Config
- Using Lambda in response to CloudWatch alarms
Skill Level Intermediate
Duration
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Introduction
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Welcome53s
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1. CloudWatch
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Introduction to CloudWatch2m 58s
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Creating a billing alarm4m 40s
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Configure SNS2m 37s
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CPU usage alarm4m 26s
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Monitoring ELB latency3m 31s
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Dashboards4m 22s
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Monitoring EBS storage3m 48s
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CloudWatch custom metrics2m 30s
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CloudWatch agent7m 9s
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2. Monitoring beyond CloudWatch
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Monitoring RDS instances4m 11s
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Monitoring SQS3m 6s
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Monitoring SNS3m 5s
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Monitoring Elastic Beanstalk3m 41s
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3. AWS Config
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Introduction to AWS Config4m 43s
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Setting up AWS Config4m 47s
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AWS Config managed rules4m 22s
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Remediating resources2m 1s
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4. Taking Action
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CloudWatch events2m 49s
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Conclusion
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Next steps38s
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