AWS Monitoring Cheat Sheet

Last Updated: November 21, 2025

Monitoring Stack

Service Use
CloudWatch Metrics, alarms, dashboards
X-Ray Distributed tracing
CloudTrail API audit logs

Commands

aws cloudwatch put-metric-alarm
Create threshold alarms
aws cloudwatch get-metric-data
Plot custom metrics
xray batch-get-traces
Inspect slow requests

Best Practices

Monitor error rates + latency, correlate traces with logs, and alert on anomaly detection.

💡 Pro Tip: Tag all resources, define CloudWatch dashboards per service, and alert before SLAs break.
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