{"id":2846,"date":"2018-09-19T02:05:26","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T08:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/?p=2846"},"modified":"2026-04-29T23:42:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T05:42:40","slug":"aws-cloudwatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/aws-cloudwatch\/","title":{"rendered":"AWS Cloudwatch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AWS Cloudwatch is an AWS monitoring tool that will help us to monitor the cloud resources.\u00a0Also, it gives a detailed report for the cloud resource usage.\u00a0Amazon CloudWatch has an open application programming interface (API) support with customized reports, notifications, and alarms.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Amazon CloudWatch, there is no up-front commitment or minimum fee. It will be charged at the end of the month for what we use.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Using cloudwatch, we can track the below metrics.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CPU usage<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CPU latency<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Network traffic<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Available storage space<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Memory<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Customer performance counters<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AWS also provides access application logs and it allows to create alarms when the metrics reach near to the pre-defined hit limit. Dashboards can also be created to display graphs and statistics for both up to the minute and historical data.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here is an example of an alarm that will send a notification email when the CPU Utilization metrics is greater than or equal to 90%.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a class=\"lightbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/cloudwatch-1.png\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"928\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/cloudwatch-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2912\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/cloudwatch-1.png 1050w, https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/cloudwatch-1-300x265.png 300w, https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/cloudwatch-1-768x679.png 768w, https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/cloudwatch-1-1024x905.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amazon CloudWatch provides monitoring the entire AWS infrastructure which is described below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Virtual instances hosted in Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Databases hosted in Amazon RDS (Relational Database Services)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Data stored in Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Elastic Load Balancers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Other AWS resources<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>Benefits<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&gt;Access all your data from a single platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&gt;Pay as per our use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&gt;Amazon CloudWatch enables you to set high-resolution alarms and take automated actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&gt;Monitoring your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/aws_management.php\">AWS<\/a> resources is easy with Amazon CloudWatch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>How Amazon CloudWatch Works<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><a class=\"lightbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/cloudwatch1-1.png\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/cloudwatch1-1.png\" alt=\"Workcycle of Amazon CloudWatch\" class=\"wp-image-3605\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/cloudwatch1-1.png 1600w, https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/cloudwatch1-1-300x93.png 300w, https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/cloudwatch1-1-768x238.png 768w, https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/cloudwatch1-1-1024x317.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AWS Cloud computing resources are housed in highly available data center facilities. Each data center facility is located in a specific geographical area termed as a&nbsp;region. This enables&nbsp;additional reliability and scalability. In order to gain the greatest possible failure isolation and stability, each region is designed to be completely isolated from the other regions. Amazon CloudWatch does not aggregate data across regions and hence the metrics are completely separate between regions.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you require help, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/requestquote.php\">contact SupportPRO Server Admin<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-center has-white-background-color has-background\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Facing issues? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Our technical support<br>engineers can solve it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--HubSpot Call-to-Action Code --><span class=\"hs-cta-wrapper\" id=\"hs-cta-wrapper-3350a795-db50-482f-9911-301930d1b1be\"><span class=\"hs-cta-node hs-cta-3350a795-db50-482f-9911-301930d1b1be\" id=\"hs-cta-3350a795-db50-482f-9911-301930d1b1be\"><!--[if lte IE 8]><div id=\"hs-cta-ie-element\"><\/div><![endif]--><a href=\"https:\/\/cta-redirect.hubspot.com\/cta\/redirect\/2725694\/3350a795-db50-482f-9911-301930d1b1be\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"hs-cta-img\" id=\"hs-cta-img-3350a795-db50-482f-9911-301930d1b1be\" style=\"border-width:0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/no-cache.hubspot.com\/cta\/default\/2725694\/3350a795-db50-482f-9911-301930d1b1be.png\"  alt=\"Contact Us today!\"\/><\/a><\/span><script charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/js.hscta.net\/cta\/current.js\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> hbspt.cta.load(2725694, '3350a795-db50-482f-9911-301930d1b1be', {\"useNewLoader\":\"true\",\"region\":\"na1\"}); <\/script><\/span><!-- end HubSpot Call-to-Action Code -->\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"904\" height=\"931\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Free-server-checkup.png\" alt=\"guy server checkup\" class=\"wp-image-12943 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Free-server-checkup.png 904w, https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Free-server-checkup-291x300.png 291w, https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Free-server-checkup-768x791.png 768w, https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Free-server-checkup-585x602.png 585w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 904px) 100vw, 904px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><span id=\"hs-cta-wrapper-9d590242-d641-4383-94b4-8cfd62f0af6b\" class=\"hs-cta-wrapper\"><span id=\"hs-cta-9d590242-d641-4383-94b4-8cfd62f0af6b\" class=\"hs-cta-node hs-cta-9d590242-d641-4383-94b4-8cfd62f0af6b\"><!-- [if lte IE 8]><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<div id=\"hs-cta-ie-element\"><\/div>\n\n\n<![endif]--><\/span><\/span><!-- end HubSpot Call-to-Action Code --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AWS Cloudwatch is an AWS monitoring tool that will help us to monitor the cloud resources.\u00a0Also, it gives a detailed report for the cloud resource usage.\u00a0Amazon CloudWatch has an open&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[69,67,5,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aws","category-devops","category-general-topics","category-server-monitoring"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2846"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17023,"href":"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846\/revisions\/17023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}