COURSE DESCRIPTION
Welcome to the AWS CloudWatch course! Amazon CloudWatch is a comprehensive monitoring and observability service that provides real-time visibility into AWS resources and applications. It helps you collect, monitor, and analyze operational data to gain insights into your cloud environment, allowing you to take action and optimize performance. This course is designed for cloud architects, system administrators, and DevOps professionals who want to leverage CloudWatch for monitoring, logging, and optimizing AWS resources.
In this course, you will learn how to use AWS CloudWatch to monitor AWS resources, set up alarms and notifications, and analyze log data. You will explore key features of CloudWatch, understand how to configure and manage metrics, logs, and dashboards, and learn best practices for leveraging CloudWatch to maintain and improve the performance of your AWS infrastructure. By the end of this course, you will be equipped to implement effective monitoring and observability strategies using AWS CloudWatch.
Course Objectives:
- Introduction to AWS CloudWatch
- Understanding CloudWatch Architecture and Components
- Configuring and Managing CloudWatch Metrics
- Setting Up and Managing CloudWatch Alarms
- Analyzing and Visualizing Logs with CloudWatch Logs
- Creating and Managing CloudWatch Dashboards
- Integrating CloudWatch with AWS Services (EC2, Lambda, etc.)
- Optimizing Performance and Troubleshooting with CloudWatch
- Using CloudWatch for Cost Management and Optimization
- Real-World Use Cases and Scenarios for AWS CloudWatch
Requirements
- Basic knowledge of AWS services and cloud computing
- Familiarity with AWS Management Console and resource management
- Understanding of monitoring and logging concepts is helpful
Features
- In-depth understanding of AWS CloudWatch capabilities and architecture
- Hands-on labs for configuring and managing CloudWatch metrics, logs, and alarms
- Best practices for creating and managing CloudWatch dashboards
- Techniques for integrating CloudWatch with other AWS services and tools
- Strategies for optimizing performance and troubleshooting with CloudWatch insights
Target audiences
- DevOps professionals and application developers
- System administrators and IT operations teams
- Data analysts and performance engineers
- Cloud architects and engineers