This video shows how to stop, restart, shut down, or terminate EC2 instances in response to CloudWatch alarms.
- [Narrator] Amazon CloudWatch Events … represent a stream of information about occurrences … within your AWS account. … It describes changes to your AWS resources. … CloudWatch Events becomes aware of operational changes … as they occur. … It responds to these operational changes … and takes corrective action … by sending messages to respond to the environment, … activating functions, making changes, … and capturing state information. … CloudWatch Events can also be used … to schedule automated actions that self-trigger … at a predetermined time. … By combining CloudWatch Events with AWS Lambda, … you can transform your monitoring approach … by taking customized actions. … Before using CloudWatch Events, … it is important to understand three foundational concepts. … The first one is events. … This is generated … when resources in your account change state. … For example, Amazon EC2 generates an event … when the state of an EC2 instance … changes from running to stopped. … Auto Scaling generates an event …
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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