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Introduction to Amazon CloudWatch

Learn how Amazon CloudWatch helps monitor AWS resources, collect metrics, track logs, and set alarms to improve application performance and reliability.

Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and observability service that helps you understand the performance and health of your AWS resources and applications.
With CloudWatch, you can collect metrics, monitor logs, create dashboards, and configure alarms to detect issues.
CloudWatch is commonly used to monitor Amazon EC2 instances, AWS Lambda functions, and other AWS services.
For example, you can create an alarm that notifies you when CPU utilization on an EC2 instance exceeds a defined threshold.
By using Amazon CloudWatch, developers and administrators can identify problems, troubleshoot issues, and maintain reliable applications in the AWS Cloud.
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