Amazon Cloudwatch Questions & Answers

To troubleshoot high CPU utilization from the unified CloudWatch agent on your server, check for resource-intensive processes, optimize code, and scale your instance.

Yes, CloudWatch Logs enables you to unify the logs from all of the applications, systems, and AWS services that you are using.

CloudWatch platform is made using a mixture of PaaS (Platform as a Service) along with IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) and SaaS (Software as a Service).

AWS CloudWatch is a service by Amazon that keeps track of resources used in cloud and their health.

AWS CloudWatch is a monitoring tool only for the AWS programs, whereas Splunk is a software that searches, monitors, and analyzes big data generated by machine, through a web-style interface.

CloudWatch is a monitoring service. It is a metrics repository. Any AWS service, like EC2, puts the metrics into repository, and the user retrieves the statistics of these metrics.

You can navigate to the CloudWatch console, select Canary under Synthetics and create a new Canary. Configure the desired settings, including the URL or endpoint to monitor, set up the schedule and switch on alert notifications.

Amazon CloudWatch gathers and monitors metrics, logs, and events from different AWS resources and applications. It offers a single view of your AWS resources and application performance, enabling you to identify issues in a hassle-free manner.