Harnessing the Power of Amazon CloudWatch Logs

This lesson explores Amazon CloudWatch Logs and how they can be used to capture and log important data about your AWS environments.

What are the learning objectives?

By the end of this lesson, you will have a greater understanding of:

• The benefits of logging

• What Amazon CloudWatch Logs is and the different components of the feature

• What the Amazon Unified CloudWatch Agent is configured

• How Log Groups can be used to organize different log streams

• How Log Anomalies are captured and identified within your streams

• How Live Tail is used to capture a live stream of events

• Log Insights and the benefits that can be gained using them

• What Contributor Insights are and what they can be used for

What are the prerequisites?

• To get the most out of this lesson you should have a basic understanding of AWS foundational concepts and services. To learn more about these services please take a look at our existing course ‘Fundamentals of AWS’ which can be found here: https://platform.qa.com/learning-paths/aws-fundamentals-1/

What's the intended audience?

• This lesson has been designed for System Operations Engineers and those looking to take AWS Certifications