Monitoring Servers and Services with AWS CloudWatch

Pluralsight

Course Summary

Are you looking to use native AWS tools to monitor your AWS services and other servers? In this course, you will learn how to use the powerful CloudWatch monitoring toolset built right into the AWS platform for your own operations environment.

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Course Description

CloudWatch is a powerful toolset built right into the AWS platform that allows you to easily monitor and automatically manage your AWS resources. In this course, Monitoring Servers and Services with AWS CloudWatch, you will learn how to use CloudWatch using both built-in metrics and custom metrics. First, you dive into how CloudWatch stores, retrieves, and organizes information. Next, you will learn about the integration of custom applications. Finally, you dive into combining built in and custom metrics. When you complete this course, you will know how to create useful dashboards for your team, as well as allow AWS to act on your behalf to make changes to your environment.

Course Description

CloudWatch is a powerful toolset built right into the AWS platform that allows you to easily monitor and automatically manage your AWS resources. In this course, Monitoring Servers and Services with AWS CloudWatch, you will learn how to use CloudWatch using both built-in metrics and custom metrics. First, you dive into how CloudWatch stores, retrieves, and organizes information. Next, you will learn about the integration of custom applications. Finally, you dive into combining built in and custom metrics. When you complete this course, you will know how to create useful dashboards for your team, as well as allow AWS to act on your behalf to make changes to your environment.

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Course Syllabus

Course Overview
- 1m 39s

—Course Overview 1m 39s

Introducing CloudWatch
- 12m 43s

—Introduction & Course Overview 1m 59s
—Introducing Globomantics 1m 0s
—Module Overview 0m 33s
—AWS Core Concepts 1m 53s
—CloudWatch Architecture 3m 15s
—CloudWatch Core Concepts 3m 27s
—Module Summary 0m 33s

Basic Service Monitoring with the CloudWatch Dashboard and CLI
- 13m 19s

—Module Introduction 1m 0s
—CloudWatch Dashboard Introduction 1m 26s
—Demo: CloudWatch Dashboard Overview 1m 58s
—Custom CloudWatch Dashboard Overview 1m 36s
—Demo: Custom CloudWatch Dashboards Overview 1m 24s
—CloudWatch CLI Introduction 0m 50s
—Demo: Installing and Configuring the AWSCLI Toolkit 2m 15s
—Demo: Basic Interaction with CloudWatch Using the AWSCLI 2m 10s
—Module Summary 0m 36s

Creating CloudWatch Alarms
- 8m 9s

—Module Introduction 0m 41s
—CloudWatch Alarms Overview 2m 58s
—Demo: Creating a CloudWatch Alarm 1m 43s
—In Detail: AWSCLI Alarm Command 1m 1s
—Demo: Monitoring a CloudWatch Alarm 1m 15s
—Module Summary 0m 28s

Creating Custom CloudWatch Alarms and Metrics
- 6m 16s

—Module Introduction 0m 51s
—Custom Metrics Review 2m 2s
—Demo: Create a Custom Metric with the AWSCLI 0m 49s
—In Detail: Put Metric Data CLI Command 0m 45s
—Demo: Published Data with the Dashboard and CLI 1m 17s
—Module Summary 0m 30s

Consuming the CloudWatch API
- 6m 45s

—Module Introduction 0m 45s
—CloudWatch API Basics 1m 12s
—Demo: Create and View Alarm 0m 22s
—Review AWSCLI Create Alarm Command 0m 14s
—Demo: View Alarm Status with Simple Ruby Script 0m 35s
—In Detail: Simple Ruby Alarm Script 1m 0s
—CloudWatch Metric API Examples 0m 32s
—Demo: View Metric Data with Simple Ruby Script 0m 26s
—In Detail: Simple Ruby Metric Script 0m 30s
—Demo: Using Ruby SDK in a Simple Sinatra Application 0m 29s
—Module Summary 0m 34s

Using CloudWatch with Outside Resources
- 7m 25s

—Module Introduction 0m 27s
—Introducing Your Example Application 1m 4s
—Demo: Prepare Development Environment 1m 41s
—Demo: Instrument Your Rails Application 1m 13s
—In Detail: Put Metric Data Command 0m 22s
—Demo: Consuming Instrumented Data 1m 55s
—Module Summary 0m 40s

Centralizing Log Collection with the CloudWatch Agent
- 11m 33s

—Module Introduction 0m 37s
—CloudWatch Logging Overview 1m 1s
—CloudWatch Logging Agent Overview 0m 55s
—Demo: Installing the CloudWatch Logging Agent 1m 13s
—Demo: Configuring the CloudWatch Logging Agent 2m 10s
—In Detail: CloudWatch Logging Configuration 1m 32s
—Consuming Your CloudWatch Logs 0m 50s
—Demo: Consuming CloudWatch Logs 2m 25s
—Module Summary 0m 46s

Where Do You Go from Here?
- 2m 42s

—Next Steps 2m 42s

Course Fee:

USD 29

Course Type:	Self-Study
Course Status:	Active
Workload:	1 - 4 hours / week

This course is listed under Open Source , Cloud Computing , Development & Implementations , Data & Information Management and Networks & IT Infrastructure Community

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Course Fee:

USD 29

Course Type:	Self-Study
Course Status:	Active
Workload:	1 - 4 hours / week

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Monitoring Servers and Services with AWS CloudWatch

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AWS (Amazon Web Services)

Ruby

Common Language Infrastructure (CLI)

Application Program Interface (API)

Sinatra

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