Logging

Curated Materials

• What: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/WhatIsCloudWatch.html
• Architecture: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/cloudwatch_architecture.html
• Concepts: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/cloudwatch_concepts.html
• Dashboards: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch_Dashboards.html
• Metrics: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/working_with_metrics.html
• Alarms: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/AlarmThatSendsEmail.html

• CloudWatch Agent: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/Install-CloudWatch-Agent.html

  • What's collected: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/metrics-collected-by-CloudWatch-agent.html

• VPC Flow logs?

With regards to our EKS based Tightly implementation:

• Container Insights: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/ContainerInsights.html

And with regards to Tightly's final form with Serverless:

• Lambda Insights: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/Lambda-Insights.html

Project(s)

EC2

1. Setup CloudAgent on an EC2 Instance automatically using Terraform and Ansible
2. Have your logs go to a different AWS account to the one you've setup the EC2 Instance inside of
   • https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch-Agent-common-scenarios.html#CloudWatch-Agent-send-to-different-AWS-account

EKS (K8s)

1. Rebuild the EKS solution using your IAC, CAC and AMI code bases, then instrument Tightly to take advantage of Container Insights

Serverless

1. Have our final Tightly implementation use Lambda Insights.

Challenges