How to collect AWS ELB metrics

This article discusses the monitoring of Amazon ELB metrics using CloudWatch. It explains three methods to collect these metrics - AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and a monitoring tool integrated with CloudWatch API. The article also highlights the usefulness of ELB access logs in investigating specific request issues. Additionally, it mentions that for more precision and granularity on backend instances' performance, one should consider monitoring their resources directly. Finally, it concludes by stating that in the next part of this series, readers will learn how to monitor ELB metrics using Datadog integration along with native metrics from backend instances for a complete view.