In this course, you will learn the benefits and technical concepts of Amazon CloudWatch. Using CloudWatch, developers and operators can improve the performance and availability of their applications. CloudWatch helps you observe and monitor resources and applications in AWS Cloud, hybrid, or on-premises environments. In this course, you will also review the basics of CloudWatch, including the business and technical challenges it can solve. - Course level: Fundamental - Duration: 1 hour Activities This course includes presentations, demonstrations, and knowledge checks. Course objectives In this course, you will learn to: - Understand the basic technical concepts of CloudWatch. - Understand both the business and technical challenges of CloudWatch. - Create alarms, explore metrics, and monitor availability using synthetics. Intended audience This course is intended for: - Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers, partners, and internal resources who wish to better understand how CloudWatch can help them operate AWS solutions at scale Prerequisites We recommend that attendees of this course have: - A basic understanding of AWS offerings and the challenges that organizations face when operating Course outline Lesson 1: Introduction to CloudWatch Lesson 2: Architecture and Use Cases Lesson 3: How Do You Explore and Graph Default CloudWatch Metrics? Lesson 4: How Do You Explore and Graph Apache Logs in CloudWatch Logs? Lesson 5: How Do You Create CloudWatch Alarms? Lesson 6: How Do You Use CloudWatch Synthetics?
