AWS CustomerCast - Monitor and Observe your Cloud and On-prem Infrastructure

In this course you will learn how to monitor and observe your cloud and on-premises infrastructure, how well-architected principals inform your decisions around what to instrument, and how this instrumentation helps you meet your business objectives.

Course objectives

In this course, you will learn to:

• Identify key performance metrics from your existing workloads
• Understand why observability is important for modern operations
• Measure Mean Time to Resolve (MTTR) and Mean Time to Identification (MTTI), and understand how they relate to operational uptime
• Navigate services AWS offers that can help reduce MTTI
• An understanding of logs, metrics, and traces, and how they compose the foundation of cloud-native observability tools

Intended audience

This course is intended for:

• DevOps
• Developers
• Site reliability engineers
• IT managers

Prerequisites

• None

Course Outline

• Well-architected principals
• What is observability, and how it differs from monitoring
• Foundational datatypes for observability
• Mean Time to Detection (MTTI), and typical troubleshooting workflows
• Maturity of observability as an evolution of monitoring
• Synthetic Canaries
• CloudWatch alarms, metrics, logs, and dashboards
• AWS X-ray and application tracing
• Next steps