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CloudWatch custom metrics - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial
From the course: AWS: Monitoring and Reporting
CloudWatch custom metrics
- [Instructor] CloudWatch provides a number of metrics to track the operational state of your AWS resources and workloads. However, to get a comprehensive understanding, the stock CloudWatch metrics may not be enough. CloudWatch allows you to ingest your own custom metrics. This can be used to monitor things like the load time of a webpage, the number of processes on your instance, the total number of TCP connections, the number of users currently logged in, or the memory utilization of your EC2 instance. Let's first understand why CloudWatch doesn't natively support metrics, such as memory utilization. Let's visualize the virtualization layers that make up a service like EC2. At the bottom is the physical layer consisting of servers, design and operated by AWS. On top of the physical layer, AWS installs a hypervisor. On top of the hypervisor, individual virtual machines known as EC2 instances are installed. It is the job…
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