AWS CloudWatch: How to Set Up EC2, RDS, Lambda and API logging

Опубликовано: 02 Май 2026
на канале: Better Stack
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Learn how to view your logs in AWS CloudWatch and setup monitors and alarms. Lets see how we can forward logs from EC2, RDS, API Gateway and Lambda logs to CloudWatch.

EC2 CloudWatch agent docs:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonClo...
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonClo...
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonClo...
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonClo...

BetterStack integration docs:
https://betterstack.com/docs/uptime/a...
https://betterstack.com/docs/logs/aws/

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📌 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀:
0:00 Intro
1:21 CloudWatch UI Overview
6:46 EC2 Custom Logging
12:03 Lambda Logging
12:34 API Gateway Logging
16:07 RDS Logging
17:47 Creating Alarms
21:31 Synthetic Canaries
23:00 BetterStack Intro
23:52 Forward Alarms to BetterStack
27:10 Forward Logs to Betterstack
30:14 Outro