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Amazon Web Services

AWS CustomerCast - Monitor and Observe your Cloud and On-prem Infrastructure

Amazon Web Services and Amazon via AWS Skill Builder

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Overview

In this course you will learn how to monitor and observe your cloud and on-premises infrastructure, how well-architected principals inform your decisions around what to instrument, and how this instrumentation helps you meet your business objectives.


Course objectives

In this course, you will learn to:

  • Identify key performance metrics from your existing workloads
  • Understand why observability is important for modern operations
  • Measure Mean Time to Resolve (MTTR) and Mean Time to Identification (MTTI), and understand how they relate to operational uptime
  • Navigate services AWS offers that can help reduce MTTI
  • An understanding of logs, metrics, and traces, and how they compose the foundation of cloud-native observability tools


Intended audience

This course is intended for:

  • DevOps
  • Developers
  • Site reliability engineers
  • IT managers



Prerequisites

  • None



Course Outline

  • Well-architected principals
  • What is observability, and how it differs from monitoring
  • Foundational datatypes for observability
  • Mean Time to Detection (MTTI), and typical troubleshooting workflows
  • Maturity of observability as an evolution of monitoring
  • Synthetic Canaries
  • CloudWatch alarms, metrics, logs, and dashboards
  • AWS X-ray and application tracing
  • Next steps

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