From the course: Monitoring AWS with CloudWatch (2020)
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CloudWatch alarm capabilities - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial
From the course: Monitoring AWS with CloudWatch (2020)
CloudWatch alarm capabilities
- [Instructor] We looked at logs and also we looked at using metrics to identify issues, but all of these was a manual process. We had to actively go into our CloudWatch console to see if anything is wrong or out of the ordinary. Now, we'll take a look at how to automate this process and get quantified when something is not right with our services. In CloudWatch, we can use alarms to get notified when an issue occurs. Amazon CloudWatch alarms allow us to set a threshold on metrics and then trigger an action. For example, we can monitor any API and when the number of failed requests is high, we can send notification to the people responsible for monitoring. So quick action can be taken. We can add alarms on all metrics, which enables us to monitor almost every aspect of our cloud environment, which in turn, enables us to be on top of any problems as soon as they start appearing. Alarms also allow us to take proactive action…
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