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Amazon CloudWatch Monitoring

April 5, 2026

CloudWatch Monitoring & Logging

Collect metrics, logs, events across AWS resources.

CloudWatch Components

Metrics:
- 5min/1min/1s granularity
- 1500+ pre-built metrics
- Metric Math expressions

Logs:
- Log groups/streams
- Insights (query language)
- Logs Data Insights (ML)

Alarms:
- Basic/Composite/Anomaly Detection
- SNS notifications

Events/EventsBridge:
- 200+ event sources
- Event bus architecture

Best Practices

Custom metrics ($0.30/million)
Contributor Insights (top users)
ServiceLens (distributed tracing)
CloudWatch RUM (real-user monitoring)

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