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Exploring CloudWatch metrics - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial
From the course: Monitoring AWS with CloudWatch
Exploring CloudWatch metrics
- [Instructor] In CloudWatch, metrics are a fundamental concept. A metric represents a set of data points that are time-ordered which get pushed to CloudWatch. We can think of them as a variable that we can monitor with data points representing the values of set variable over a period of time. In here, for example, we are making a request, so all of these will be turned into metrics. Now, let's navigate to our AWS CloudWatch console. At this point, I have left the app running here for long enough, so we should have some metrics. We named our application cloudwatchcourseapi. Now, on the search bar, type CloudWatch, and then open the CloudWatch service. For this demo, we are going to look at metrics. So, on the left here, expand Metrics, and then click All metrics. In here, you are going to be presented with this screen. Before you can view any metrics, first, you need to select a namespace as metrics are grouped in…
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