Monitoring with Cloudwatch

When an issue occurs in a system, it’s vital to address it. To do so, monitoring and logs are key. This lesson is about monitoring. It’s important to be able to track how an application is behaving when it is executing. Monitoring is also done on repositories or, in the case of DynamoDB, databases. For this reason, AWS offers a service called CloudWatch that allows us to monitor our DynamoDB databases.

What is monitoring?

Monitoring is all about observing the behavior of an application at runtime. To do so, metrics must be collected and configured. After that, they can be analyzed to determine the health status of the application.

In general, to monitor an application, it’s necessary to obtain information about its ...