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USER GUIDE
* What is Amazon CloudWatch?
* How CloudWatch works
* Concepts
* Resources
* Getting set up
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* See the pre-built cross-service dashboard
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* Get statistics for a metric
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* Create a composite alarm
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* Acting on alarm changes
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* Alarm events and EventBridge
* Managing alarms
* Alarm use cases and examples
* Create a billing alarm
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* Create an alarm on Performance Insights counter metrics from an AWS
database
* Create alarms to stop, terminate, reboot, or recover an EC2 instance
* Alarms and tagging
* Application monitoring (APM)
* Application Signals
* Permissions required for Application Signals
* Enable Application Signals
* Application Signals supported systems
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* Enable Application Signals on Amazon EKS clusters
* Enable Application Signals on an Amazon EKS cluster with your
services
* Enable Application Signals on a new Amazon EKS cluster with a
sample app
* Enable Application Signals on Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, or Kubernetes
* Use a custom setup to enable Application Signals on Amazon ECS
* Enable Application Signals on Amazon EC2
* Enable Application Signals on Kubernetes platforms
* Update to required versions of agents or Amazon EKS add-on
* Troubleshooting your Application Signals installation
* Configuring Application Signals
* Monitor your application's operational health
* View your services with the Services page
* View detailed service information
* View your application topology with the service map
* Example: Resolve an operational health issue
* Standard application metrics collected
* Service level objectives (SLOs)
* Synthetic monitoring (canaries)
* Required roles and permissions
* Required roles and permissions for users who manage CloudWatch
canaries
* Required roles and permissions for canaries
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* Creating a canary
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* Monitoring canary events with Amazon EventBridge
* CloudWatch RUM
* IAM policies to use CloudWatch RUM
* Set up an application to use CloudWatch RUM
* Step 1: Authorize your application to send data to AWS
* Step 2: Create an app monitor
* (Optional) Step 3: Manually modify the code snippet to configure the
CloudWatch RUM web client
* Step 4: Insert the code snippet into your application
* Step 5: Test your app monitor setup by generating user events
* Configuring the CloudWatch RUM web client
* Regionalization
* Use page groups
* Specify custom metadata
* Send custom events
* Viewing the CloudWatch RUM dashboard
* How CloudWatch RUM sets Apdex scores
* CloudWatch metrics that you can collect with CloudWatch RUM
* Custom metrics and extended metrics
* Data protection and data privacy with CloudWatch RUM
* Information collected by the CloudWatch RUM web client
* Route change timing for single-page applications
* Manage your applications that use CloudWatch RUM
* How do I find a code snippet that I've already generated?
* Edit your application
* Stop using CloudWatch RUM or delete an app monitor
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* Troubleshooting
* Perform launches and A/B experiments with CloudWatch Evidently
* IAM policies to use Evidently
* Create projects, features, launches, and experiments
* Create a new project
* Use client-side evaluation - powered by AWS AppConfig
* Add a feature to a project
* Use segments to focus your audience
* Create a launch
* Create an experiment
* Manage features, launches, and experiments
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* Modify launch traffic
* Modify a launch's future steps
* Modify experiment traffic
* Stop a launch
* Stop an experiment
* Adding code to your application
* Project data storage
* How Evidently calculates results
* View launch results in the dashboard
* View experiment results in the dashboard
* How CloudWatch Evidently collects and stores data
* Using service-linked roles
* CloudWatch Evidently quotas
* Tutorial: A/B testing with the Evidently sample application
* Network monitoring
* Using Internet Monitor
* Supported Regions
* Pricing
* Components
* Internet weather map
* How Internet Monitor works
* Use cases
* Internet Monitor cross-account observability
* Getting started
* Creating a monitor
* Adding resources to your monitor
* Setting your application traffic percentage
* Choosing a city-networks maximum limit
* Publishing internet measurements to S3
* Using a monitor
* Editing or deleting a monitor
* Add or create monitor when you create a VPC
* Add or create monitor from the CloudFront console
* Examples with the CLI
* Internet Monitor dashboard
* Tracking real-time performance and availability
* Exploring historical data
* Using insights to improve your network setup
* Explore data using tools
* CloudWatch Logs Insights
* CloudWatch Contributor Insights
* CloudWatch Metrics
* Athena with S3 logs
* Internet Monitor query interface
* Create alarms
* EventBridge integration
* Troubleshoot errors
* Data protection and data privacy
* Identity and Access Management
* How Internet Monitor works with IAM
* AWS managed policies
* IAM permissions
* Service-linked role
* Quotas
* Using Network Monitor
* How Network Monitor works
* Region availability
* Creating a monitor
* Working with monitors and probes
* Edit a monitor
* Delete a monitor
* Activating or deactivating a probe
* Add a probe to a monitor
* Edit a probe
* Delete a probe
* Tag or untag resources
* Network Monitor dashboards
* Monitor dashboard
* Probe dashboard
* Quotas
* Security
* Data protection
* Infrastructure Security
* Identify and Access management
* How Amazon CloudWatch Network Monitor works with IAM
* Identity-based policy examples
* Troubleshooting
* AWS managed policies
* IAM permissions
* Service-linked roles
* Pricing
* Infrastructure monitoring
* Container Insights
* Setting up Container Insights
* Setting up Container Insights on Amazon ECS
* Setting up Container Insights on Amazon ECS for cluster- and
service-level metrics
* Setting up Container Insights on Amazon ECS using AWS Distro for
OpenTelemetry
* Deploying the CloudWatch agent to collect EC2 instance-level
metrics on Amazon ECS
* Deploying the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry to collect EC2
instance-level metrics on Amazon ECS clusters
* Set up FireLens to send logs to CloudWatch Logs
* Setting up Container Insights on Amazon EKS and Kubernetes
* Verify prerequisites
* Using the CloudWatch agent with Container Insights enhanced
observability enabled
* Install the Amazon CloudWatch Observability EKS add-on
* Quick Start setup for Container Insights on Amazon EKS and
Kubernetes
* Set up the CloudWatch agent to collect cluster metrics
* Using AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry
* Send logs to CloudWatch Logs
* Set up Fluent Bit as a DaemonSet to send logs to CloudWatch
Logs
* (Optional) Set up Fluentd as a DaemonSet to send logs to
CloudWatch Logs
* (Optional) Set up Amazon EKS control plane logging
* (Optional) Enable App Mesh Envoy access logs
* (Optional) Enable the Use_Kubelet feature for large clusters
* Updating or deleting Container Insights on Amazon EKS and
Kubernetes
* Upgrading to Container Insights with enhanced observability
for Amazon EKS
* Updating the CloudWatch agent container image
* Deleting the CloudWatch agent and Fluent Bit for Container
Insights
* Viewing Container Insights metrics
* Metrics collected by Container Insights
* Amazon ECS Container Insights metrics
* Amazon EKS and Kubernetes Container Insights metrics
* Performance log reference
* Performance log events for Amazon ECS
* Performance log events for Amazon EKS and Kubernetes
* Relevant fields in performance log events for Amazon EKS and
Kubernetes
* Container Insights Prometheus metrics monitoring
* Set up and configure on Amazon ECS clusters
* Set up on Amazon ECS clusters
* Scraping additional Prometheus sources and importing those
metrics
* Detailed guide for autodiscovery on Amazon ECS clusters
* (Optional) Set up sample containerized Amazon ECS workloads for
Prometheus metric testing
* Sample App Mesh workload for Amazon ECS clusters
* Sample Java/JMX workload for Amazon ECS clusters
* Sample NGINX workload for Amazon ECS clusters
* Sample NGINX Plus workload for Amazon ECS clusters
* Tutorial for adding a new Prometheus scrape target: Memcached
on Amazon ECS
* Tutorial for scraping Redis Prometheus metrics on Amazon ECS
Fargate
* Set up and configure on Amazon EKS and Kubernetes clusters
* Set up on Amazon EKS and Kubernetes clusters
* Scraping additional Prometheus sources and importing those
metrics
* (Optional) Set up sample containerized Amazon EKS workloads
for Prometheus metric testing
* Set up AWS App Mesh sample workload for Amazon EKS and
Kubernetes
* Set up AWS App Mesh sample workload on an Amazon EKS
cluster with the EC2 launch type or a Kubernetes cluster
* Set up AWS App Mesh sample workload on an Amazon EKS
cluster with the Fargate launch type
* Set up NGINX with sample traffic on Amazon EKS and
Kubernetes
* Set up memcached with a metric exporter on Amazon EKS and
Kubernetes
* Set up Java/JMX sample workload on Amazon EKS and
Kubernetes
* Set up HAProxy with a metric exporter on Amazon EKS and
Kubernetes
* Tutorial for adding a new Prometheus scrape target: Redis
on Amazon EKS and Kubernetes clusters
* Prometheus metric type conversion by the CloudWatch Agent
* Prometheus metrics collected by the CloudWatch agent
* Viewing your Prometheus metrics
* Prometheus metrics troubleshooting
* Prometheus metrics troubleshooting on Amazon ECS
* Prometheus metrics troubleshooting on Amazon EKS and Kubernetes
clusters
* Integration with Application Insights
* See Amazon ECS lifecycle events within Container Insights
* Troubleshooting Container Insights
* Building your own CloudWatch agent Docker image
* Deploying other CloudWatch agent features in your containers
* Lambda Insights
* Get started with Lambda Insights
* Available versions of the Lambda Insights extension
* x86-64 platforms
* ARM64 platforms
* Use the console to enable Lambda Insights on an existing Lambda
function
* Use the AWS CLI to enable Lambda Insights on an existing Lambda
function
* Use the AWS SAM CLI to enable Lambda Insights on an existing Lambda
function
* Use AWS CloudFormation to enable Lambda Insights on an existing
Lambda function
* Use the AWS CDK to enable Lambda Insights on an existing Lambda
function
* Use Serverless Framework to enable Lambda Insights on an existing
Lambda function
* Enable Lambda Insights on a Lambda container image deployment
* Update the Lambda Insights extension version on a function
* View your Lambda Insights metrics
* Integration with Application Insights
* Metrics collected by Lambda Insights
* Troubleshooting and known issues
* Example telemetry event
* Use Contributor Insights to analyze high-cardinality data
* Create a Contributor Insights rule
* Contributor Insights rule syntax
* Example rules
* Viewing Contributor Insights reports
* Graphing metrics generated by rules
* Using Contributor Insights built-in rules
* Detect common application problems with CloudWatch Application Insights
* What is Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights?
* How Application Insights works
* Get started
* Access CloudWatch Application Insights
* Prerequisites
* IAM policy
* Permissions for account-based application onboarding
* Set up, configure, and manage your application
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* Command line steps
* Events and notifications
* Application Insights cross-account observability
* Work with component configurations
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* Example configurations for relevant services
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* Collect NVIDIA GPU metrics
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* Set up and configure Prometheus metrics collection on Amazon EC2
instances
* Install the CloudWatch agent by using the Amazon CloudWatch Observability
EKS add-on or a Helm chart
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* Troubleshooting the CloudWatch agent
* Embedding metrics within logs
* Publishing logs with the embedded metric format
* Using the client libraries
* Specification: Embedded metric format
* Using the PutLogEvents API to send manually-created embedded metric
format logs
* Using the CloudWatch agent to send embedded metric format logs
* Using the embedded metric format with AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry
* Viewing your metrics and logs in the console
* Setting alarms on metrics created with the embedded metric format
* Services that publish CloudWatch metrics
* AWS usage metrics
* Visualizing your service quotas and setting alarms
* AWS API usage metrics
* CloudWatch usage metrics
* CloudWatch tutorials
* Scenario: Monitor estimated charges
* Scenario: Publish metrics
* Working with AWS SDKs
* Code examples
* Actions
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* DeleteDashboards
* DescribeAlarmHistory
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* Cross-service examples
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* Security
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* Identity-based policy examples
* Troubleshooting
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groups
* Using condition keys to limit alarm actions
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* Using service-linked roles for Application Insights
* AWS managed policies for Application Insights
* Amazon CloudWatch permissions reference
* Compliance validation
* Resilience
* Infrastructure security
* AWS Security Hub
* Interface VPC endpoints
* Security considerations for Synthetics canaries
* Logging API and console operations with AWS CloudTrail
* Tagging your CloudWatch resources
* Grafana integration
* Service quotas
* Document history
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WHAT IS AMAZON CLOUDWATCH?
PDFRSS
Amazon CloudWatch monitors your Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources and the
applications you run on AWS in real time. You can use CloudWatch to collect and
track metrics, which are variables you can measure for your resources and
applications.
The CloudWatch home page automatically displays metrics about every AWS service
you use. You can additionally create custom dashboards to display metrics about
your custom applications, and display custom collections of metrics that you
choose.
You can create alarms that watch metrics and send notifications or automatically
make changes to the resources you are monitoring when a threshold is breached.
For example, you can monitor the CPU usage and disk reads and writes of your
Amazon EC2 instances and then use that data to determine whether you should
launch additional instances to handle increased load. You can also use this data
to stop under-used instances to save money.
With CloudWatch, you gain system-wide visibility into resource utilization,
application performance, and operational health.
ACCESSING CLOUDWATCH
You can access CloudWatch using any of the following methods:
* Amazon CloudWatch console – https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/
* AWS CLI – For more information, see Getting Set Up with the AWS Command Line
Interface in the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide.
* CloudWatch API – For more information, see the Amazon CloudWatch API
Reference.
* AWS SDKs – For more information, see Tools for Amazon Web Services.
RELATED AWS SERVICES
The following services are used along with Amazon CloudWatch:
* Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) coordinates and manages the
delivery or sending of messages to subscribing endpoints or clients. You use
Amazon SNS with CloudWatch to send messages when an alarm threshold has been
reached. For more information, see Setting up Amazon SNS notifications.
* Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling enables you to automatically launch or terminate
Amazon EC2 instances based on user-defined policies, health status checks,
and schedules. You can use a CloudWatch alarm with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling to
scale your EC2 instances based on demand. For more information, see Dynamic
Scaling in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide.
* AWS CloudTrail enables you to monitor the calls made to the Amazon CloudWatch
API for your account, including calls made by the AWS Management Console, AWS
CLI, and other services. When CloudTrail logging is turned on, CloudWatch
writes log files to the Amazon S3 bucket that you specified when you
configured CloudTrail. For more information, see Logging Amazon CloudWatch
API and console operations with AWS CloudTrail.
* AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a web service that helps you
securely control access to AWS resources for your users. Use IAM to control
who can use your AWS resources (authentication) and what resources they can
use in which ways (authorization). For more information, see Identity and
access management for Amazon CloudWatch.
BILLING AND COSTS
For complete information about CloudWatch pricing, see Amazon CloudWatch
Pricing.
For information that can help you analyze your bill and possibly optimize and
reduce costs, see CloudWatch billing and cost.
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