CloudWatch for EC2
Learn about EC2 monitoring.
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CloudWatch
CloudWatch is a monitoring service that connects with almost all the services on the AWS platform. It’s a very important topic for the SOA-CO2 exam. AWS pushes some default monitoring metrics from EC2 instances onto CloudWatch.
EC2 monitoring types
EC2s support two types of CloudWatch monitoring.
- Basic monitoring: Free monitoring from AWS where metrics are collected at five-minute intervals.
- Detailed monitoring: Paid monitoring where metrics are collected at one-minute