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Logs, metrics, alarms, dashboards, X-Ray, RUM, Synthetics and anomaly detection — with an infographic per chapter and a full production project you can deploy today.
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It covers every current CloudWatch feature, includes a plethora of infographics and cheat sheets, and is packed with real-world examples drawn from a complete, functional project.
Jeff Barr — Vice President, Amazon Web Services
01 — What's inside
CloudWatch is well documented. Knowing what to actually use isn't.
Teams buy an expensive third-party tool because CloudWatch felt unpleasant once. This book is the other path — the features that matter, wired into a real application.
Pages that earn their place
No filler. The features and settings you actually reach for.
Chapters, every feature
From logs and metrics to RUM, Synthetics and anomaly detection.
Real production project
The GitHub Tracker, instrumented end to end in Terraform and CDK.
Video walkthroughs
One video per chapter — the console, the code, the decisions.
02 — Table of contents
Every CloudWatch feature, in order.
Preface
Who this book is for — and who it is not.
Understanding observability
Why observability decides whether you sleep through the night.
The GitHub Repository Tracker
The serverless project every chapter instruments.
Logs & Insights
Structured logging, retention, Live Tail, masking and real queries.
Metrics
Namespaces, dimensions, custom metrics, metric math and Insights.
Alarms
Metric and composite alarms that page you for real problems.
03 — Real-world project
The GitHub Tracker, deployed in your own account.
A fully serverless application instrumented end to end — in both a Terraform and a CDK track, with the full source code.
04 — Video course
Watch it happen in the console.
6+ hours, one video per chapter — the AWS Console, the code, and the reasoning behind both. Included in the top package.
Example project
10:33 · Deploying the GitHub Tracker.
Logs and Insights
78:33 · Structured logging and the queries that help.
Metrics
58:45 · Dimensions, custom metrics and metric math.
Alarms
40:30 · Metric and composite alarms wired to SNS.
Dashboards
24:39 · A dashboard for the tracker, end to end.
X-Ray
51:25 · Tracing requests across the whole stack.
RUM
30:19 · What your users really experience.
Synthetics
50:54 · Canaries on your critical paths.
9 videos in total. Stills shown — the full course ships with the top package.
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Some kind words from the community
The CloudWatch Book is a comprehensive guide for everyone working on AWS. With over 350 pages, it delves deep into all aspects of CloudWatch. Go, grab it!
Sheen Brisals — Author of Serverless Development on AWS
CloudWatch is one of the foundational services every AWS user should know. This is your definitive guide — you might be pleasantly surprised at how much it is capable of.
Yan Cui — AWS Serverless Hero & Author
The book is a must read for anyone wanting to build Serverless applications on AWS.
Andrea Amorosi — Senior Solutions Architect, AWS
Tobias and Alessandro explain my preferred monitoring solution in detail — from logs, metrics and alarms to feature flags and real user monitoring.
Andreas Wittig — AWS Consultant, Founder, Educator
Excited to dig in to the CloudWatch Book. This thing is BIG — 350+ pages.
Rowan Udell — AWS Consultant, Educator, Author
An indispensable resource for anyone serious about running applications on AWS. It takes you from zero to observability hero.
Luciano Mammino — Author of 'Crafting Lambda Functions in Rust'
06 — Your instructors
20+ years of combined production AWS experience.
We've built, broken and debugged production systems on AWS for startups and enterprises alike — so you can learn from our mistakes instead of your own.
Tobias Schmidt
Cloud Engineer & Educator
Migrated production workloads for startups and large car manufacturers — and fell into every AWS trap so you do not have to.
Sandro Volpicella
Fullstack Developer & AWS Specialist
AWS Community Builder, conference speaker and author of two AWS books. Builds serverless-first, cost-effective architectures.
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Every CloudWatch feature. We go deep on Logs, Metrics, Alarms and Dashboards, then show how to monitor an application end to end with X-Ray, RUM, Synthetics and anomaly detection.
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