What is CloudWatch?
CloudWatch is a service used to monitor your AWS resources and applications that
you run on AWS in real time. CloudWatch is used to collect and track metrics that
measure your resources and applications.
It displays the metrics automatically about every AWS service that you choose.
You can create the dashboard to display the metrics about your custom application
and also display the metrics of custom collections that you choose.
You can also create an alarm to watch metrics. For example, you can monitor CPU
usage, disk read and disk writes of Amazon EC2 instance to determine whether the
additional EC2 instances are required to handle the load or not. It can also be
used to stop the instance to save money.
Following are the terms associated with CloudWatch:
Dashboards: CloudWatch is used to create dashboards to show what is happening with
your AWS environment.
Alarms: It allows you to set alarms to notify you whenever a particular threshold
is hit.
Logs: CloudWatch logs help you to aggregate, monitor, and store logs.
Events: CloudWatch help you to respond to state changes to your AWS resources.
Creating a Dashboard
Sign in to the AWS Management Console.
I created an EC2 instance, and the name of an EC2 instance is EC2instance.
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Move to the CloudWatch service.
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Click on the Dashboards appearing on the left side of the console.
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Click on the Create dashboard button. Enter the dashboard name. Suppose I write the
dashboard name as WebServer.
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Click on the Create dashboard.
Select the widget type and add to the dashboard.
I add the Line widget to our dashboard.
CloudWatch EC2
After adding a line widget, you have to choose the service. I choose the EC2
service.
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Click on the per-instance metrics.
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Choose the CPUUtilization as a metric name and click on the create widget button.
CloudWatch EC2
The below screen shows the CPU utilization in the form of line widget.
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I add another widget known as stacked area.
CloudWatch EC2
The above screen shows the CPU utilization in the form of a colored graph.
Creating an Alarm
Click on the Alarms appearing on the left side of the console.
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Click on the Create Alarm.
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Select a metric.
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select an EC2.I
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Click on the Per-Instance Metrics.
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I select a CPUUtilization metric.
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Enter the Alarm details.
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The above details show that when CPU utilization is greater than 80%, then an alarm
is triggered and sent to the email address that you mentioned while filling the
alarm details.
Click on the link sent to your email address for confirmation and this confirmation
shows that you are ready to receive the alerts.
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