Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring service provided by AWS that enables you to collect, monitor, and analyze data from your AWS resources and applications. CloudWatch can monitor resources such as Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon RDS DB instances, and Amazon S3 buckets, as well as custom metrics generated by your applications and services.
CloudWatch provides a variety of features and capabilities, including:
Metric and log data collection: CloudWatch can collect and store metrics, logs, and other data from your AWS resources and applications. This data can be used to monitor the health and performance of your systems, and to identify and troubleshoot issues.
Alarms: CloudWatch can monitor your resources and applications and send notifications when specified thresholds are breached. You can use alarms to alert you to potential issues and take corrective action.
Dashboards: CloudWatch provides customizable dashboards that allow you to visualize your data and monitor the health and performance of your resources and applications in real-time.
Integration with other AWS services: CloudWatch integrates with many other AWS services, including Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, Amazon S3, and more. This allows you to monitor and manage your resources and applications across all of your AWS accounts and regions from a single dashboard.