This is a four-part course that helps technical AWS cloud operations and devops teams understand the core fundamentals of AWS Observability using Amazon Web Services (AWS) management and governance services.
Course description
Course level: Intermediate
Course duration: 5 Hours
Module 1: 60 minutes
Module 2: 90 minutes
Module 3: 90 minutes
Module 4: 60 minutes
Course objectives
In this course, you will learn the three pillars of observability: Tracing, monitoring and logging. You will also discover a wide range of services that can help elevate your cloud operations practices, transforming them from a tactical day-to-day routine into a strategy that delivers business outcomes for your organization.
Intended audience
This course is intended for:
- DevOps, site reliability engineers, cloud architects, and cloud operations
Prerequisites
We recommend that attendees of this course have:
- Familiarity with monitoring and logging
- Working knowledge of day-to-day cloud operations
Activities
This course includes presentations, demonstrations, and videos.
Module 1: Introduction
- Observability
- Observability: Monitoring and Logging
- Amazon Best Practices for Logging
- CloudWatch
- CloudWatch and the CloudWatch Agent
- CloudWatch Concepts
- Deploying the CloudWatch Agent
- Configuring the CloudWatch Agent
- Resources
Module 2: Alerting and Insights
- Introduction
- Observability – Application Monitoring Introduction
- Applications
- CloudWatch Synthetics Canaries
- X-Ray
- CloudWatch RUM
- Health Checks
- Insights
- Container
- Lambda
- Evidently
- Resources
Module 3: Application Monitoring
- Introduction to Insights
- Introduction to CloudWatch Logs and Contributor Insights
- Dashboards
- Working with Dashboards
- Detection mechanisms
- Introduction to Anomaly Detection
- Using Alarms and Alerts
- CloudTrail
- Introduction to CloudTrail
- EventBridge
- Connecting Events with EventBridge
- VPC flow logs
- Using VPC Flow Logs
- AWS Compute Optimizer
- Rightsizing with AWS Compute Optimizer
- Resources
Module 4: Open Source
- Introduction to Open Source
- How it Works
- ADOT
- ADOT on Containers
- ADOT on Lambda
- Prometheus
- How Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus Works
- Prometheus on Containers
- Getting Started with Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus
- Amazon Managed Grafana
- How Amazon Managed Grafana Works
- Data Sources for Amazon Managed Grafana
- Amazon Managed Grafana Demonstration
- Resources
