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Monitoring with CloudWatch

Monitoring with CloudWatch

- [Instructor] One change that DevOps made on how a service operates is to expand the role of monitoring the service past "Is the site up?" to "How is the site performing?" The easiest way to think about this is to look at the status page of a popular SMS messaging service called Twilio. Their status page is showing a high level status of the various parts of their service in a stoplight format. Red, it's down, yellow, it's having problems, green, it's up And if you scroll down to the bottom of the page, you'll see a line graph of their API's performance over time. A good DevOps team will monitor service performance. So if your service starts to run slower after a new code change was introduced into your environment, then you can identify the slowdown and push up a fix. AWS has a similar status screen for their services. From your console home screen, scroll down. And under AWS Health, click on Go to AWS Health. You'll…

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