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Pushing Application Logs from Amazon Lightsail to Amazon CloudWatch: A Step-by-Step Guide

2025-03-19T07:29:05+00:00

In my previous article, I mentioned how you can use your application logs hosted on an Amazon Lightsail instance to create a subscription filter in Amazon CloudWatch. But have you ever wondered how to push your application logs from your Lightsail instance to CloudWatch? Unlike in the EC2 instance, which allows you to easily modify the IAM role and attach the CloudWatchAgentServerPolicy, Amazon Lightsail lacks this capability in its default configuration. Pushing application logs to Amazon CloudWatch is invaluable for maintaining a robust monitoring system. It allows you to track application performance, diagnose issues in real-time, and gain deeper insights [...]

Pushing Application Logs from Amazon Lightsail to Amazon CloudWatch: A Step-by-Step Guide2025-03-19T07:29:05+00:00

How to Automate Storage and Memory Space Monitoring in Amazon EC2 with CloudWatch and Slack

2025-03-19T06:45:45+00:00

Managing resources effectively is crucial when operating in the cloud. One important aspect of managing Amazon EC2 instances is monitoring storage and memory usage. Storage space, primarily driven by Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), and memory (RAM) are two critical resources that need constant monitoring to avoid performance degradation and optimize costs. Fortunately, with Amazon CloudWatch and Slack, you can automate monitoring these resources and get notified when thresholds are crossed. This blog will guide you through setting up automated monitoring for disk utilization (EBS storage) and memory utilization (RAM) in Amazon EC2 using CloudWatch and Slack. Difference Between Storage [...]

How to Automate Storage and Memory Space Monitoring in Amazon EC2 with CloudWatch and Slack2025-03-19T06:45:45+00:00

Streamline Log Monitoring for Nginx with CloudWatch Agent

2024-09-27T01:31:47+00:00

Monitoring the health and performance of your applications is essential for maintaining reliable operations, detecting issues, and troubleshooting efficiently. Monitoring logs can provide invaluable insights into server behavior, user activity, and error occurrences regarding web services. However, tracking logs across distributed systems can be challenging. Amazon CloudWatch Agent is a powerful tool that collects metrics and logs from your EC2 instances and on-premises servers and centralizes them in Amazon CloudWatch. With centralized monitoring, teams can quickly detect anomalies, respond to incidents, and ensure smooth operation across different environments. In this article, we'll explore how you can use the CloudWatch Agent [...]

Streamline Log Monitoring for Nginx with CloudWatch Agent2024-09-27T01:31:47+00:00

CloudWatch Agent vs SSM Agent vs Custom Daemon Scripts

2023-04-08T04:26:22+00:00

CloudWatch Agent SSM Agent (AWS Systems Manager) Custom Daemon Scripts CloudWatch agent allows you to collect more system-level metrics from your EC2 and on-premises servers than just the standard CloudWatch metrics. It also enables you to retrieve custom metrics from your applications or services using the StatsD and collectd protocols. StatsD is supported on both Linux servers and servers running Windows Server. collectd is supported only on Linux servers. You can use CloudWatch agent to collect logs from your servers and send them to CloudWatch Logs. Metrics collected by the CloudWatch agent are billed as custom metrics. You can install [...]

CloudWatch Agent vs SSM Agent vs Custom Daemon Scripts2023-04-08T04:26:22+00:00

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