Introduction to CloudWatch

- [Instructor] Amazon CloudWatch is an AWS service … that allows you to monitor your AWS resources … and applications you run on AWS. … By default, CloudWatch automatically displays metrics … about every AWS service you use. … Additionally, it is also possible to create customized … dashboards with metrics elected from your applications. … With CloudWatch, you can also create alarms to watch … your metrics. … When an alarm is triggered, … CloudWatch can be configured to send notifications, … or automatically make changes to resources … you're monitoring. … A common use case is to monitor the CPU utilization … of your EC2 instances. … This data can be used to determine whether additional … instances need to be launched to handle the increased … load, or whether existing instances need to be terminated … when the load is very less. … CloudWatch can be accessed via the AWS Management Console, … API, command line interface, and the AWS SDKs. … Technically Amazon CloudWatch is a repository …