Basics of Amazon CloudWatch and CloudWatch Metrics | AWS Tutorials for Beginners

Amazon CloudWatch is the ultimate tool for monitoring and managing your resources in AWS. From metrics to logs, alarms to dashboards, there are lots of ways to collect and view data about your environment.

In this short video, I’ll provide an overview of CloudWatch, how metrics work (including basic vs. detailed monitoring, and standard vs. high resolution). Then we dive into the AWS Console for a tour of some EC2 metrics.

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00:00 – Why Amazon CloudWatch?
00:53 – Core capabilities of CloudWatch
01:41 - Introducing CloudWatch metrics (stored in namespaces)
02:25 – Example metric for CPUUtilization of an EC2 instance
02:45 - Basic vs. detailed monitoring in CloudWatch (1 minute vs. 5 minute)
03:28 – Metric resolution in CloudWatch (standard vs. high resolution)
04:03 –Examples: Using basic and detailed monitoring combined with standard and high resolution
05:10 – Viewing CloudWatch metrics in the AWS Console, and for a specific region
05:47 – Working with EC2 Per-Instance Metrics (CPUUtilization, NetworkIn, NetworkOut)
06:59 – Working with CloudWatch charts, time ranges, zooming in and out
08:13 – Basic and detailed monitoring and metric resolution in the Console
09:06 – Changing CloudWatch chart types and other available actions
09:35 – Viewing CloudWatch metrics from an EC2 instance
10:16 – Enabling detailed monitoring from EC2 (for publishing data every 1 minute)

[TinyTechnicalTutorials]

What else do you want to learn in AWS? Let me know below in the comments! 🤓

[babababa]

Of all the technical channels I've come across this year, after watching about 20 of your videos, you are by far the best. Absolute top quality content.

[mohammadfakure]

Just another brilliant tutorial video that gives clear image how it works. Thank you Amber!

[ameenasif]

Your Voice quality is great and sense of detail in understanding

[cristobalvalladares]

We are embarking on a major AWS project. Providing monitoring via datadog. We are AWS rookies. We love your clear presentation. You teach your captions. We know there is much to learn, but you've made us all more confident. Thank you.

[matthewkinsley]

Was looking for something to help understand metric/metric resolution and stumbled upon your video…I’m only halfway through but wanted to say I appreciate how you’ve put everything together. Your visuals and explanations are perfect! Thank you.

[victorl]

Hi Amber. Thanks for another great tutorial. To answer your question - it would be nice to see some project-based videos with event-driven architecture, including consuming and processing webhooks from external third-party services, ideally including deploying these projects with Terraform.

[olakunlebalogun]

Your voice + attention to details + tempo = 🔥🔥🔥... Nice work!

[albersantos]

It should be nice to show how to install the CWAgent too, as it's needed for a few metrics (like the one showed about CPU), and it's not straightforward as the AWS documentations make it looks as well. (that's what I was expecting as a "tutorial for beginners")

[watchtowerv]

How do you delete custom metric and do whatever clean up? What permissions are required?

[ccc_ccc]

Can you please create a tutorial on how to create pipeline to auto generate a business report using Amazon Q? Example: New PDF raw data enters to S3. Then S3 syncs with Amazon Q. Then Amazon Q generate a daily report given a predefined set of business questions. Then, output a PDF report for business analysis based on the latest data.

[funvideo]

Need some help on below things:
1) we have 400+ aws account which will share metric data with one monitoring account with cross account setting. And that monitoring account will intigrate with Grafana for reporting.. so if user run the report for 90 days or 6 month metric data... will there be any huge latancy?

If yes then what is your suggestiob to resolve this challange?

[ccc_ccc]

Can you please create a tutorial on how to use Amazon Q specially on how to connect to an S3 source? The configurations needed are very confusing.

[funvideo]

2) If i have one aws cw monitoring account and 400+ other aws account with cross account cross region setting enabled on them. Then those account metric data will get store to monitoring account or it will be at thos aws account only and monitoring account will fetch it from there...

For eg.. if i run query on grafana to see graph of top 100 cpu usage ec2 then how and from which place it will fetch the metric data??

[samjones]

Hey! Thanks once again for another fabulous tutorial! As always you have made CloudWatch a lot more understandable and doable and that's what I love about your series!! I can't wait to see the other new content, especially Bedrock! I had a little set back in my studies but I'm back in full swing and I'm shooting for late December to sit for my SAA exam! Thank you so much for all that you do for us! and as always, be well, be safe and Cheers!!!