Monitoring Servers On-Premises and in AWS Using Unified CloudWatch Agent

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Amazon Web Services is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform offering over 200 fully featured services. Today everyone is looking to innovate faster and lower their cost in handling their online tools. Whizlabs course on Monitoring Servers On-premise and in AWS Using Unified CloudWatch Agent will bring these thoughts into reality.

When leading government agencies promoting E-governance have started to adopt the use of such solutions Whizlabs recommends every person to get a whiff of at least the basic technicalities of these through its courses.

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With these databases, Amazon gives you the power to build different types of applications. The right tool and the strong base provided by the Amazon web service gives you a broader opportunity to tune your application.

CloudWatch Agents

An integrated System manager which invokes a simplification in processing and management of your tools is what your CloudWatch agent stands for. Instead of you multitasking between different tabs and tools to keep up with your app development, the CloudWatch agent shows you logs and metrics from all your applications and makes them available to you on ‘one’ platform.

Whizlabs course on Monitoring Servers On-premise and in AWS Using Unified CloudWatch Agent offers you a brush through the logging Agent, Cloudtrail logging, monitoring with Cloudtrail, Cloud front access logs and VPC Flow logs.

Amazon CloudWatch Agent provides you with the following:

  • Instances across operating systems will be collected through the Amazon CloudWatch agent which will be given to you in system-level metrics. The metrics can include in-guest metrics.
  • It will collect system-level metrics from premises servers. These will comprise a hybrid environment in addition to the servers not managed by AWS.
  • The custom metrics that your application uses can be collected by Amazon CloudWatch using the StatsD application and other protocols.
  • The system collects logs from the instances and on-site servers running either on Linux or Windows.

CloudWatch Monitoring

In simple words, CloudWatch Monitoring means visualizing applications with infrastructure, dashboards offered by CloudWatch, correlated logs and metrics as well as troubleshoot alarms and alert alarms.

As explained above, monitoring is a feature that helps to keep track of the user applications run on AWS. It will keep track of the metrics and can give you the exact information on the variables used to measure the resources and applications that your users use.

The course will hence provide you with a unified and collective view of your events and applications. This helps you to correlate metrics and logs into a better understanding of the performance of your resources.

The course will help you out with creating alarms based on the metric value of thresholds. It will teach you to set up logs that will quickly act and notify you. You can watch for anomalous metric behaviour based on machine learning algorithms. you can also dive deep into the charts and data given by the AWS CloudWatch agent and know how to better your application.

Below are some of the tools which promote the smooth working of your application:

  1. Infrastructure monitoring
  2. Mean-time-to-resolution
  3. Proactive resource optimization

Infrastructure monitoring:

The function basically creates infrastructure boards and charts of all the applications and logs. These charts will display to you a correlated metric and log function which will further enable you to resolve your troubleshooting issues. In the case of zero issues, these metrics will give you an idea of how to better the overall performance. It also monitors your container ecosystem across Amazon ECS, AWS Fargate, Amazon EKS and Kubernetes.

Mean-time-to-resolution:

The biggest power that the Amazon CloudWatch service gives you is visualization. The visual analytics of your data. An extra feature that is added here is ‘trace data; from AWS X-ray. It will allow you to observe the data from the origin to the end. It helps to speed up debugging and reduce mean time to resolution.

Proactive resource optimization:

It helps to set thresholds against metric values. It acts as a passive alarm. Any anomalous behaviour can be detected early by setting alarms according to your measurements. Auto action taking algorithms can also be set.

Monitoring Metrics through CloudWatch Agent

The following metrics will be taught in the Whizlabs Monitoring Servers On-premise and in AWS Using Unified CloudWatch Agent course:

1. Instance Metrics
It helps you obtain the percentage of allocated EC2 units that are working. It will also provide you with the processing power the set up requires to run the application. Instance metrics will also help you to calculate the average operations per second (IOPS). It can calculate the bytes read and written from all instance volumes available.

2. Credit Metrics
It counts and provides you with the number of CPU credits spent and earned. The tools also show you the number of surplus credits that have been used or spent.

3. Status Check Metrics
This tool reports whether the instance has passed the status and system check. It will give you the information of the last minute instance check as well.

4. Traffic monitoring metrics
This is a filtering metric offered by AWS CloudWatch. It filters the data from the one you have requested and shows you the specified group capacity. It will show you the data you request from all instances running on Amazon Machine Image. It will also provide you with the requested data from a specified instance. You can pinpoint the exact instance from which you would like your data.

5. Amazon EC2 usage metrics
This gives you a powerful visualization of metrics from the view of resources. It shows you the number of resources running on your account and defines the dimensions of those resources. The configuration of alarms on usage will be set after reviewing and going through the analysis of this data.

Need for this certification course

Before and after COVID, Amazon policies and developments have always focused on digital transformation. It predicted the digital future way back and has built its way through digitizing every aspect of our daily lives. All over the world, there is a current IT sector challenge that possesses the responsibility of effective cloud service for a massive upcoming digital era.

When 1000s of businesses are going online, it is obvious that they will need extensive monitoring and developmental handling of their data. If you as an individual want to start a business online then you too will want to be equipped with tools that will put you first in the market.

Here is where the need to learn intense tools such as AWS CloudWatch and AWS services occurs. Cloud monitoring has become a breathing tool for any and every website. It has become a necessity and gives rise to a lot of micro and macro services which this generation needs to excel.

The course will help you answer questions like “How much data does my application collect and use on a day to day basis”, “How can I better my bandwidth use?”, “Is my app performing well on the cloud or windows?”, “Are the features introduced in the application of any use or are they making the usage tougher?”.

All of these answers come through using monitoring tools and learning how to analyze them. If you do not excel in this aspect then the idea of app improvement will be absent. Monitoring will help your business grow and go a long way.

About Girdharee Saran

Girdharee Saran has a glorious 13 years of experience transforming the way e-learning and SaaS start-ups approach digital marketing for their organisations. He has successfully chartered tangible results, which have proven beneficial. Working in the spaces of content marketing and SEO for a considerable amount of time, he is well conversant in his art. Having taken a deep interest in content and growth marketing, his urge to learn more is perpetual. His current role at Whizlabs as VP Marketing is about but not limited to driving SEO, conversion optimisation, marketing automation, link building and strategising result driven content.

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