#Monitoring
4 posts
AWS in Practice #5: Monitoring — CloudWatch Alarms and X-Ray
CloudWatch Logs Insights operational queries, ECS / RDS / ALB core metrics and alarm thresholds, SNS → Slack notifications, X-Ray distributed tracing for catching slow requests in one line — turning on the operational eye.
RHEL Advanced #3: Performance Analysis — sar, top/htop, iostat, vmstat, perf
Where to look first when a RHEL machine becomes slow. Get the first picture with top/htop, see CPU/memory/IO at once with vmstat, drill into disks with iostat, follow time with sar, and find CPU hotspots with perf — all framed by the USE (Utilization, Saturation, Errors) methodology in one cycle.
AWS Basics #7: CloudWatch Intro — Logs and Metrics
CloudWatch Logs / Metrics / Alarms / Dashboards, log groups and retention, Metric Filters, and the basics of Logs Insights queries — the eyes of every production system.
AWS Basics #3: Cost Management — Billing Alerts, Cost Explorer, Free Tier
The limits of the Free Tier, setting up AWS Budgets / billing alerts, analyzing the bill with Cost Explorer, and a tag strategy that holds up in production — the guardrail that prevents first-bill shock.