Table of Contents

Introduction to Amazon CloudWatch

	Amazon CloudWatch Concepts
	Choosing A CloudWatch Interface

Using Amazon CloudWatch

Viewing Your AWS Metrics With CloudWatch

	Listing Available Metrics
	Getting Statistics for a Metric
	CloudWatch Metrics, Namespaces, and Dimensions Reference

Creating CloudWatch Alarms

	Set Up Amazon SNS
	Send Email Based on CPU Usage Alarm
	Send Email Based on Load Balancer Alarm
	Send Email Based on Storage Throughput Alarm

Publishing Custom Metrics

Amazon CloudWatch Command Line Interface Reference

	mon-cmd Command
	mon-delete-alarms Command
	mon-describe-alarm-history Command
	mon-describe-alarms Command
	mon-describe-alarms-for-metric Command
	mon-disable-alarm-actions Command
	mon-enable-alarm-actions Command
	mon-get-stats Command
	mon-list-metrics Command
	mon-put-data Command
	mon-put-metric-alarm Command
	mon-set-alarm-state Command
	mon-version Command

Controlling User Access to Your AWS Account

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