In this session, we go deep on best practices for you to get the most out of Amazon CloudWatch. Learn how you can use new service metrics to keep even more of your systems and applications running smoothly. See how CloudWatch Logs can help you monitor your logs in near‑real time for events you care about and store the log data in low cost, highly durable storage. Hear about best practices to retrieve Amazon Web Services metrics from CloudWatch using the API. Get a demonstration of how you can use the Amazon EC2 configuration service to monitor applications and events on Windows Server.

2. Amazon Web Services
Your metrics
Your logs

6. •Analysis –Trusted Advisor
•Integration with other monitoring
•Programmatic access

7. •IAM permissions
•API
•Request throughput
•Late arriving data

8. list-metrics

10. get-metric-statistics

13. //Pseudo-putting-it-together
RetrieveMetrics(metricFilters, startTime, endTime, period)
{
Items result = new Items();
//Loop through metrics matching filters for timerange
foreach(Metric m in ListMetrics(metricFilters))
{
result.Add(GetMetricStatistics(m, startTime, endTime, period));
}
return result;
}

15. Monitor and alert
Centralized access
Archive

32. Metric filters –Literal terms

33. Metric filters –Common log format

34. Metric filters –JSON

40. Recent improvements

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