Key metrics for AWS monitoring

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been instrumental in driving the adoption of basic cloud computing services as well as the expansion and ease of use of managed infrastructure services. Over the years, AWS has expanded beyond basic compute resources to include tools like CloudWatch for AWS monitoring, managed infrastructure services like Amazon RDS for database management, and AWS Lambda for serverless computing. Datadog’s AWS integration aggregates metrics from across your entire AWS environment in one place and enables you to get full visibility into your highly dynamic services in order to efficiently investigate potential issues. This article explores key metrics that will help you monitor widely used services like Amazon EC2, EBS, ELB, RDS, ElastiCache, ECS, EKS, Lambda, and Fargate in full context with the rest of your infrastructure and applications.