Table of Contents
- 1 What are the primary benefits of CloudWatch?
- 2 Should I use CloudWatch?
- 3 Will you recommend CloudWatch as an added feature to your cloud deployment?
- 4 What is CloudTrail and CloudWatch?
- 5 What are 3 things you can do in CloudWatch?
- 6 How do I monitor Kubernetes with Zabbix?
- 7 Is CloudWatch the best tool to record metrics into storage?
- 8 What is the difference between alerts and events in CloudWatch?
What are the primary benefits of CloudWatch?
CloudWatch provides users with data and actionable insights to monitor applications, respond to system-wide performance changes, optimize resource utilization, and get a unified view of operational health.
Should I use CloudWatch?
We recommend CloudWatch logs to customers to monitor, store, and access log files from Amazon EC2 instances, AWS CloudTrail, VPC Flow logs, Lambda logs and other sources. You can search the logs or filter them easily via one or more metric filters. You can even tag CloudWatch Log Groups, making this task even easier.
Why do we use CloudWatch?
CloudWatch enables you to monitor your complete stack (applications, infrastructure, and services) and leverage alarms, logs, and events data to take automated actions and reduce Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR). This frees up important resources and allows you to focus on building applications and business value.
Can zabbix monitor AWS?
Zabbix can monitor an environment of multiple AWS accounts, that can be monitoring business systems consisting of multiple accounts. It can also detect anomalies not only by simple alerts based on thresholds, but also by multiple thresholds and conditions in combination.
Will you recommend CloudWatch as an added feature to your cloud deployment?
Likelihood to Recommend CloudWatch is highly recommended for monitoring EC2 services. It provides easy setup, straight forward alarm creation, easy to read monitoring. It is great for scalability/cost. We know when to increase an EC2 instance or when it can be scaled down.
What is CloudTrail and CloudWatch?
Amazon Cloudwatch is a monitoring service that gives you visibility into the performance and health of your AWS resources and applications, whereas AWS Cloudtrail is a service that logs AWS account activity and API usage for risk auditing, compliance and monitoring.
Is CloudWatch global or regional?
Customizable home pages in the CloudWatch console that you can use to monitor your resources in a single view, even those spread across different regions. There is no limit on the number of CloudWatch dashboards you can create. All dashboards are global, not region-specific.
Is CloudWatch expensive?
CloudWatch allows you to have 50 metrics per Dashboard free of charge. Beyond that, there is a small monthly charge for each additional metric you have. Above the first 10,000 metrics, the monthly cost is tiered….Metrics.
| API Command | Cost per 1,000 Metrics Requested ($) |
|---|---|
| PutDashboard | 0.01 |
| DeleteDashboards requests | 0.01 |
What are 3 things you can do in CloudWatch?
You can use Amazon CloudWatch to collect and track metrics, collect and monitor log files, and set alarms.
How do I monitor Kubernetes with Zabbix?
Installation
- Copy k8s-stats.py to /etc/zabbix/scripts/ and k8s.conf to /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.d/. Remind to give execute permission to the file: chmod +x k8s-stats.py.
- Import Zabbix template (k8s-zabbix-template.xml) to Zabbix server.
- Create zabbix user in Kubernetes (can use zabbix-user-example.
- Apply template to host.
What is Zabbix monitoring?
Zabbix is an open-source monitoring software tool for diverse IT components, including networks, servers, virtual machines (VMs) and cloud services. A Zabbix agent can also be installed on UNIX and Windows hosts to monitor statistics such as CPU load, network utilization, disk space, etc.
Should I use CloudWatch or Grafana labs for cloud monitoring?
Not the best UI when compared to competitors like Grafana Labs. CloudWatch is the most appropriate option if your stack is largely AWS. AWS services are expensive compared to competitors, but it is recommend for very large high-profile companies. Otherwise, choosing a monitoring tool will depend on the use-case it’s needed for.
Is CloudWatch the best tool to record metrics into storage?
You might need to employ other tools for recording metrics into storage. Not the best UI when compared to competitors like Grafana Labs. CloudWatch is the most appropriate option if your stack is largely AWS. AWS services are expensive compared to competitors, but it is recommend for very large high-profile companies.
What is the difference between alerts and events in CloudWatch?
It allows us to configure alarms to trigger a notification (like sending emails) when any specified condition is rendered satisfied. CloudWatch provides the feature called Events, which is different from alerts. It makes the platform aware of the application’s operational changes as they happen in real-time.