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How to Build an AWS CloudWatch Dashboard using Terraform
Introduction
Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and observability service for AWS resources. It provides a variety of metrics and logs that can be used to track the health and performance of your applications and infrastructure. CloudWatch dashboards allow you to visualize this data in a single, centralized location.
Terraform is an infrastructure as code (IaC) tool that allows you to provision and manage your AWS resources in a declarative way. This means that you can define the desired state of your infrastructure in a configuration file, and Terraform will automatically take the necessary steps to achieve that state.
What is AWS CloudWatch?
Amazon CloudWatch is a centralized monitoring service that offers a unified view of your AWS resources and applications. It provides a set of tools for collecting, analyzing, and visualizing data from various sources in real time. Amazon CloudWatch collects log and metric data from EC2 instances and other AWS services. CloudWatch includes a dashboard feature for viewing metrics and alarms to create notifications and perform actions when breaching an alarm threshold or when the alarm condition resets. CloudWatch is the AWS-provided observability platform.
