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Log monitoring with AWS

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Log monitoring with AWS

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- [Instructor] One piece that we looked at in CloudWatch, was inspecting CloudWatch for our log streams that included the output from our lambda function. Adding log outputs like this to your custom application can help you look for trends and diagnose problems when you have millions of users hitting your app. CloudWatch ties into several AWS services and you can do a lot with this to monitor your Cloud infrastructure, but its strong suit has never been on getting underneath your code or tracing the root cause of a nasty error message from your application. This area is called Application Performance Monitoring or APM and there's some third party companies that are AWS partners such as New Relic, Dynatrace and Datadog that do this better. These tools hook into your AWS account and hook into your source code and combine the data you get with CloudWatch with realtime information about how your application is performing on user…

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