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4Monitoring and Logging

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  • 4.1Metrics and Alarms

    Understand metric monitoring—CloudWatch metrics (standard/custom), alarms, composite alarms, dashboards, and EventBridge. Detect anomalies and drive notifications/automation.

  • 4.2Log Management

    Understand log collection and analysis—CloudWatch Logs, Logs Insights (queries), metric filters, subscription filters, and centralized logging (Amazon Data Firehose → S3/OpenSearch). Gain insight and detection from logs.

  • 4.3Tracing and Unified Observability

    Understand unified observability—X-Ray (distributed tracing), ServiceLens, Synthetics (canaries), Container/Lambda Insights, and CloudTrail. Correlate metrics, logs, and traces to find causes fast.