Monitoring a Live Streaming Workflow with Amazon CloudWatch

An important part of any video workflow is being able to monitor the status and health of the software services and their tasks in order to detect and correct problems before they jeopardize the workflow. In this lab, you will use Amazon CloudWatch to monitor a live streaming video workflow built with AWS Elemental MediaPackage, AWS Elemental MediaPackage, and Amazon CloudFront.

Level

Fundamental

Duration

Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn how to:

• Create notifications based on MediaLive alerts and channel status changes
• Create metrics to measure MediaLive input and output
• Create metrics to measure MediaPackage input and output
• Build a dashboard to view those metrics
• Manipulate the workflow and observe the results in CloudWatch

Intended Audience

This course is intended for:

• Architects
• Developers

Prerequisites

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

• This lab is built upon a live streaming workflow that was created in the **Building a Live Video Channel with MediaLive, MediaPackage and Amazon CloudFront** self-paced lab (SPL-207)

• Familiar with the basic procedures of building a live streaming workflow using AWS Elemental Media Services, including:
  • Connecting a MediaLive input to a MediaLive channel
  • Configuring a MediaLive channel
  • Configuring a MediaPackage channel
  • Playing video from a MediaPackage channel
• Familiar with the basic navigation of the AWS Management Console

Course Outline

• Task 1: View the live streaming workflow
• Task 2: Create events and notifications in CloudWatch
• Task 3: Create MediaLive and MediaPackage metrics dashboard in CloudWatch
• Task 4: Monitor the live stream using CloudWatch