CloudWatch Dashboards

Difficulty: Intermediate

Duration: 8 minutes and 32 seconds

Students: 3,907

Rating: 4.6/5

Learn how to build cool dashboards that let you know at a glance when something is desperately on fire within your AWS architecture. This lesson is geared towards helping you understand the value of building your own dashboards within CloudWatch, to give you unparalleled visibility into your architecture and dedicated systems.

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Learning Objectives

Create your own CloudWatch dashboard to monitor the items that are important to you
Understand how CloudWatch dashboards can be shared across accounts
Understand the cost structure of CloudWatch dashboards and the limitations of the service

Intended Audience

This lecture is perfect for someone who is looking to gain insight into how their infrastructure is performing through the use of easy to understand graphics, metrics, and tables.

Prerequisites

To get the most out of this lesson, you should have a basic understanding of AWS. It would also be beneficial to have moderate experience using Amazon CloudWatch.

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