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Introducing CloudWatch alarms - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial
From the course: Monitoring AWS with CloudWatch
Introducing CloudWatch alarms
- [Instructor] We looked at metrics and we looked at using logs to identify issues, but all of this was a manual process. We had to actively go to our CloudWatch console to see if anything was wrong or out of the ordinary. Now we'll take a look at how to automate this process and get notified when something is not right with our services. In CloudWatch, we can use alarms to get notified when issues occur. Amazon CloudWatch alarms allow us to set a threshold on metrics and to trigger an action. For example, we can monitor our API and when the number of failure request hits a specific number, then we can send a notification to the people responsible. This way, swift action can be taken. We can add alarms on all metrics, which enables us to monitor almost every aspect of our cloud environment and be on top of any problems as soon as they start showing up. Alarms also allow us to take proactive action and not just send…
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