How it works
CloudWatch collects monitoring and operational data in the form of logs, metrics, and events, and visualizes it using automated dashboards so you can get a unified view of your AWS resources, applications, and services that run on AWS and on premises. You can visualize the experience of your application end users and validate design choices through experimentation. Correlate your metrics and logs to better understand the health and performance of your resources.
Create alarms based on metric value thresholds you specify, or alarms that can watch for anomalous metric behavior based on ML algorithms. For example, set up automated actions to notify you if an alarm is triggered and automatically start auto scaling to help reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR). You can also dive deep and analyze your metrics, logs, and traces to better understand how to improve application performance.
