Tasks Performed by Cloudwatch Agent

  • It collects,monitors and stores the log files.
  • It collects and tracks key metrics
  • It can also create alaram and sends notifications regarding the errors.

Collect Metrics and Logs with the CloudWatch Agent

Amazon CloudWatch is the powerful tool that used to collect metrics on resources and monitor their performance of the resources. It can monitor system-level metrics like CPU usage, memory usage, and disk space and also the application levels metrics like requests per second and error rates. By collecting these data it will help the developers to analyze and know the performance of the servers.

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Tasks Performed by Cloudwatch Agent

It collects,monitors and stores the log files. It collects and tracks key metrics It can also create alaram and sends notifications regarding the errors....

How does the Cloudwatch Agent Works?

It collects all the metrics and logs from aws resources and applications. With the help of these collected metrics it helps us to visualize the application on cloudwatch dashboard.If we do some operational changes in the environment the cloud watch agent becomes aware of these changes and act accordingly.And finally it provides us real time analysis by using cloud watch metric map....