#100DaysofAWS|Day6|CloudWatch

Hello again and welcome to back to my series of blog posts all about #100DaysofAWS in which I am talking all about the most interesting and exciting services AWS has to offer.

CloudWatch is on the agenda today!

CloudWatch is AWS’s principal real-time monitoring and observability service, and it is designed to make the lives of DevOps, SysOps and IT Managers much easier by understanding exactly what is going on in your AWS infrastructure.

So how does it work?

CloudWatch integrates with the entire fleet of AWS services to give you actionable and reliable data in order to gain an system-wide view of performance changes, resource utilization and operational of your application’s health.

The most efficient way to understand how CloudWatch works is to think of it as being a collection of multiple services:

1. CloudWatch Logs
2. CloudWatch Metrics
3. Amazon EventBridge ( Formally CloudWatch Events)
4. CloudWatch Alarms
5. CloudWatch DashBoards

Lets break down these services and have a look first at CloudWatch Logs.

CloudWatch logs is the fundamental part of CloudWatch in which all of the other services are built upon. Simply put…