My Quest for CloudWatch Monitoring on AWS Lightsail with Terraform
Lightsail hides IAM roles for simplicity, which breaks the CloudWatch agent. Here is the workaround: an IAM user with explicit credentials, automated with Terraform.
[ READ MORE >> ]CloudWatch Dashboards Are Great (If You Build Them Right)
How to build useful CloudWatch dashboards with Terraform: start in the console, export to JSON, then make it repeatable with IaC.
[ READ MORE >> ]5 Cool and Actually Useful CloudWatch Tricks You Can Start Using Today
CloudWatch beyond the basics: parse logs like a data warehouse, build missing metrics with math, find top talkers, stop alert storms, and skip threshold guessing with anomaly detection.
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