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A book, project, and video course about using CloudWatch in the real world.
A book, project, and video course about using CloudWatch in the real world.
"The CloudWatch Book" is your go-to book, project, and video course that makes understanding Amazon CloudWatch a breeze.
Everybody who used just one AWS service needed to work with CloudWatch. We know that the experience is not always delightful. That is why we have created The CloudWatch Book.
We saw many companies getting a third-party monitoring tool because they didn't know how to handle CloudWatch properly But CloudWatch can actually be a great tool if you know how to use it.
Our book helps you with that!
But why should you use CloudWatch instead of the third-party tools?
We cover almost every CloudWatch feature, not just logging and metrics.
The CloudWatch Book not only focuses on the default CloudWatch features. We focus on how you can monitor your whole application from beginning to end. You often start with logs and metrics but there is so much more to measuring your system's performance. We show you how.
The GitHub Tracker: A Real-World Project to Understand CloudWatch
Learning CloudWatch by only reading a book is not possible. This is why we provide a real-world project that you can deploy within your own AWS Account! This project is a GitHub repository tracker that gives you an overview of different repositories and their activities.
You get access to the full source code repository on GitHub. From there you can deploy the project to your AWS Account. We even offer you two different tracks. Terraform and CDK
Terraform: A tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently via a declarative language.
CDK: The infrastructure-as-code tool by AWS that allows you to define your cloud infrastructure using familiar programming languages like TypeScript.Whatever framework you prefer, you can choose it. The application is fully available in both.
We focused on building a fully serverless application that uses various AWS services such as
A Video Course that walks you through the theories and practicals of CloudWatch
Additionally, to the book, infographics, and code we are offering more than 6 hours of video content. We cover each chapter with a distinct video.
We are not only showing you a presentation and the book. We walk you through the AWS Console and our GitHub Tracker to show you how everything interacts.
Get started by deploying our real-world GitHub repository tracker using various AWS services like Lambda, DynamoDB, and API Gateway.
Learn how to interact with the GitHub repository tracker, which involves multiple AWS services to provide an integrated experience.
Understand how CloudWatch helps in tracing logs and sessions across AWS services like ECS and Websockets.
Learn how to set up CloudWatch Alarms and use it for real-time monitoring of your web applications.
Understand how to create and use dashboards in CloudWatch for better monitoring and insights.
Learn about AWS X-Ray for tracing applications and troubleshooting performance issues.
Discover how to use AWS Real User Monitoring (RUM) to track user interactions and performance.
Understand how AWS Synthetics can simulate user paths and monitor your applications.
Learn about AWS Evidently for feature experimentation and monitoring.
Learn how to detect anomalies in your application metrics using AWS CloudWatch.
Tools and resources you can use to get started even faster and progress even further.
Design assets, icon teardowns, and a community of fellow icon designers where you can ask questions, get feedback, and accelerate your learning.
350+ pages of pure CloudWatch Content. We cover each major feature that CloudWatch offers.
For helping you understand the concepts better, we have created 1-pager infographics for each chapter.
A fully built real-world project that you can deploy in your own AWS Account. In both Terraform and CDK. You get access to the full source code.
More than 6 hours of video content that covers each chapter of the book. We show you the code, the AWS Console, and everything you need to know.
Besides our public Discord channels, you'll get access to a private Discord channel where you can ask questions and get prioritized feedback, and accelerate your learning.
Enter your email address and we' send you a free sample chapter. The chapter covers everything around CloudWatch Logs & Insights.
Pick your package
We offer the CloudWatch Book in three different packages.
350+ pages of pure CloudWatch Content. Plus infographics for each chapter.
$79
This package gives you additionally access to the full source code of our real-world project.
$179
The book, infographics, code and 6+ hours of video content that covers each chapter!
$259
We worked with a small group of early access customers to make sure all of the content in the book was exactly what they needed. Hears what they had to say about the finished product!
The CloudWatch book is a comprehensive guide for everyone working on AWS. Though Amazon CloudWatch is a core service, many engineers only scratch its surface and focus solely on its logging capabilities. Sustainable modern applications are modular, extendable, and observable. Observability is not an afterthought but an integral part of cloud development. This book is a masterpiece by Tobias and Alessandro. With over 350 pages, it delves deep into all aspects of CloudWatch to help engineers understand the core tenets of observability—logs, metrics, and traces—and explains how they can extract all the underutilized potential of CloudWatch. Go, grab it!
CloudWatch is one of the foundational services that every AWS user should know. The CloudWatch Book is your definitive guide for learning CloudWatch, you might be pleasantly surprised at how much it's capable of!
My friends Tobias Schmidt and Alessandro Volpicella have just released The CloudWatch Book. 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. There's also an accompanying video course.
The CloudWatch book is a comprehensive guide for everyone working on AWS. Though Amazon CloudWatch is a core service, many engineers only scratch its surface and focus solely on its logging capabilities. Sustainable modern applications are modular, extendable, and observable. Observability is not an afterthought but an integral part of cloud development. This book is a masterpiece by Tobias and Alessandro. With over 350 pages, it delves deep into all aspects of CloudWatch to help engineers understand the core tenets of observability—logs, metrics, and traces—and explains how they can extract all the underutilized potential of CloudWatch. Go, grab it!
Been eagerly awaiting this for the longest time, there's always value as a consultant in being proficient with the first party offerings, as you can rely on them being there and available, being able to work around enterprise bureaucracy to prove value.
CloudWatch is one of the foundational services that every AWS user should know. The CloudWatch Book is your definitive guide for learning CloudWatch, you might be pleasantly surprised at how much it's capable of!
Tobias and Alessandro are doing a great job explaining my preferred monitoring solution in detail: CloudWatch. Starting with logs, metrics, and alarms, the two monitoring geniuses even dive into more advanced areas like feature flags and real user monitoring (RUM). On top of that, the demo application includes tons of real-world examples.
My friends Tobias Schmidt and Alessandro Volpicella have just released The CloudWatch Book. 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. There's also an accompanying video course.
Excited to dig in to the CloudWatch Book by Alessandro Volpicella and Tobias Schmidt!This thing is BIG (350+ pages) and coming out by the end of the month (no pressure guys! 😆)
Tobias Schmidt – Freelance Cloud Engineer & Educator
Tobias loves to build (and break) things while teaching his learnings along the way. He's a passionate software engineer & educator with several years of professional experience and worked for small tech startups as well as large car manufacturers. While migrating existing production workloads, he got the necessary hands-on to explore and understand the tricks & peculiarities of AWS. This also enabled him to build resilient, large-scale applications from scratch. He's stumbled into all the traps aspiring cloud enthusiasts can fall into so you don't have to.
Sandro Volpicella – Platform Lead @Hashnode & Serverless Enthusiast
Sandro is the Platform Engineering Lead @Hashnode where he builds the next generation of developer blogging platforms. There he uses a serverless-first architecture on AWS to build a scalable & performant platform for millions of users.
Sandro is also an AWS Community Builder, Cloud-Consultant, and creator of several indie projects.
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In the CloudWatch Book, we cover every CloudWatch feature. We do focussed a lot on the basics like Logs, Metrics, Alarms, and Dashboards. But we also show you how you can monitor your application end-to-end with services like Evidently, Synthetics, RUM, and more!
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