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Use the AWS SDK by example for metrics

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Use the AWS SDK by example for metrics

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- [Instructor] Now we're ready to look at the Amazon CloudWatch SDK for JavaScript. As we've seen in previous tools, we know CloudWatch is our web service that we can use to monitor AWS resources and applications. Now we're going to look at this programmatically. We should be familiar now that CloudWatch is going to allow us to collect and track metrics, and these are variables that we can measure for our resources and applications. CloudWatch also has alarms which can be configured to send us notifications, or to make changes to the resources that we're monitoring based on rules that we define. A solid understanding of all these core concepts and exploration via the console and the scripting tool is highly recommended before you start programmatically accessing the SDK here. If I scroll down, you can see that the JavaScript API for CloudWatch is exposed through the interface AWS.CloudWatch, and AWS.CloudWatchEvents, and AWS.CloudWatchLogs client classes, and we have a number of…

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