Getting Started with Amazon CloudWatch: Essential Commands for Monitoring

Amazon CloudWatch is a powerful observability service that enables you to monitor AWS resources, applications, and services in real-time. Whether you’re managing a simple web app or a multi-region distributed system, CloudWatch helps you collect, analyze, and act on performance data to ensure your systems run smoothly. In this post, we’ll cover some essential commands to get started with CloudWatch using the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI).

What is Amazon CloudWatch?

Amazon CloudWatch provides monitoring and observability capabilities for AWS resources, custom metrics, logs, and application insights. It offers features such as alarms, dashboards, log analysis, and anomaly detection, enabling you to keep your infrastructure and applications running efficiently.

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