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Key health events tools

Key health events tools

- [Instructor] In regards to operational health and relating this to operational excellence, the details that allow you to achieve the operational health that you wish is through monitoring, using metrics, traces, events, and automated solutions. The real bedrock mindset of operational excellence and the entire well-architected framework. The key operational health tools for managing your application in regards to operational excellence are Amazon CloudWatch, using metrics and alarms, and we've talked about this service in other movies, but it's important. The metrics and alarms for your infrastructure services will provide you those details and tell you right now about your operational health. We can also collect the application trace data using X-Ray and find out exactly how that application is communicating between the resources and the requests. We can also use AWS EventBridge, which is an actual default bridge created by AWS that links most AWS services together. More details on…

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