Benefits of CloudWatch
CloudWatch offers several benefits:
- Collects metrics and logs for AWS environments. We can collect and track metrics in real-time, as well as see the load graph for a long time. Also, we can monitor our logs from our applications.
- Visibility from all monitoring data on one platform. We can monitor logs and metrics from different instances and services in one CloudWatch console.
- Increases and optimizes the operational performance of AWS. By tracking logs and metrics in real-time, we can add capacity or remove unnecessary capacity. By doing this, we can optimize costs and control the stability of applications and instances.
- Easy integration with other AWS resources. If necessary, CloudWatch integrates with different AWS services, for example, AWS SNS, AWS Lambda, AWS Auto Scaling, AWS CloudFormation, etc.
How To Install and Set Up an AWS CloudWatch Agent Using CLI?
We will see how to install and configure the new unified CloudWatch agent on a running EC2 Linux instance. Collect logs from the Apache HTTP log file and collect metrics from our EC2 instance. New unified CloudWatch can collect both logs and metrics from EC2 instances. The older CloudWatch Logs agent is on the path to deprecation.