AWS CloudWatch Demonstration

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Project division

This project is divided into three parts:

  1. Monitoring (tracking) metrics using CloudWatch
  2. Setting and monitoring log files over CloudWatch
  3. Setting Alarms in the CloudWatch console

Technical requirements

This demonstration was set up on Amazon Web Services console. However, in order to access the VM, native CLI and openssh were used on Ubuntu 18.04.

Following are the AWS provided technologies used here:

  • CloudWatch
  • EC2
  • IAM
  • awslogs