Amazon DynamoDB - Monitoring

This lab teaches you about monitoring DynamoDB tables using CloudWatch and AWS X-Ray.

Level

Intermediate

Duration

Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn how to:

• Create and manage CloudWatch Alarms
• Understand and leverage CloudWatch Contributor Insights for DynamoDB
• Create and manage a CloudWatch Dashboard to view operational data for DynamoDB tables
• Use AWS X-Ray to troubleshoot performance issues and identify potential bottlenecks

Intended Audience

This course is intended for:

• Data Engineers
• Developers

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

• Familiar with basic navigation of the AWS Management Console, NoSQL database concepts, and the Python programming language,
• Comfortable editing scripts using a text editor

Course Outline

• Task 1: Managing the Development Environment
• Task 2: Working with CloudWatch Alarms
• Task 3: CloudWatch Contributor Insights
• Task 4: Building Dashboards with CloudWatch
• Task 5: Distributed Tracing with AWS X-Ray