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Published inNov 2023
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Damian Wojsław
Damian Wojsław
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Damian Wojsław

Damian Wojsław has been working in the IT industry since 2001. He specializes in administration and troubleshooting of Linux servers. Being a system operator and support engineer he has found DevOps philosophy a natural evolution of the way sysops work with developers and other members of the software team.
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Grzegorz Adamowicz
Grzegorz Adamowicz
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Grzegorz Adamowicz

Grzegorz Adamowicz has been working in the IT industry since 2006 in a number of positions, including Systems Administrator, Backend Developer (PHP, Python), Systems Architect and Site Reliability Engineer. Professionally was focused on building tools and automations inside projects he is involved in. He's also engaged with the professional community by organizing events like conferences and workshops. Grzegorz worked in many industries including Oil & Gas, Hotel, Fintech, DeFI, Automotive, Space and many more.
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Every cloud provider out there is fully aware of the need for proper monitoring and distributed logging, so they will have built their own native solutions. Sometimes it’s worth using native solutions, but not always. Let’s take a look at the major cloud providers and what they have to offer.

One of the first services available in AWS was CloudWatch. At first, it would just collect all kinds of metrics and allow you to create dashboards to better understand system performance and easily spot issues or simply a denial-of-service attack, which in turn allowed you to quickly react to them.

Another function of CloudWatch is alerting, but it’s limited to sending out emails using another Amazon service, Simple Email Service. Alerting and metrics could also trigger other actions inside your AWS account, such as scaling up or down the number of running instances.

As of the time of writing this book, CloudWatch can do so much more than monitoring...

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Damian Wojsław

Damian Wojsław has been working in the IT industry since 2001. He specializes in administration and troubleshooting of Linux servers. Being a system operator and support engineer he has found DevOps philosophy a natural evolution of the way sysops work with developers and other members of the software team.
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Grzegorz Adamowicz

Grzegorz Adamowicz has been working in the IT industry since 2006 in a number of positions, including Systems Administrator, Backend Developer (PHP, Python), Systems Architect and Site Reliability Engineer. Professionally was focused on building tools and automations inside projects he is involved in. He's also engaged with the professional community by organizing events like conferences and workshops. Grzegorz worked in many industries including Oil & Gas, Hotel, Fintech, DeFI, Automotive, Space and many more.
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