From the course: AWS for DevOps: Continuous Delivery and Process Automation
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Using CloudWatch for automation - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial
From the course: AWS for DevOps: Continuous Delivery and Process Automation
Using CloudWatch for automation
- [Narrator] Now, because we are going to be working programmatically with CloudWatch Alarms and we haven't really looked to them in this course and sort of assuming you're familiar, I'm just going to take a light treatment in case you've never seen them before. CloudWatch course is your central service point for all of you logs, so you have your log information about all of you service access, so, for example, for our demo serverless application, we have a code build log group and we have log streams and we have detailed information in our log streams that we've seen subsets of in our, for example, code build tools and so on and so forth, so this is the central repository for logs. We also have, of course, metrics and you can see that we have some graph metrics, as well. We haven't really sent anything up here, but this where you'd see it. However, more (mumbles) to the building of a code pipeline is this idea of an alarm, because the idea is once a service level gets into an alarm…
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