Monitoring tools - Amazon IoT Events
Automated toolsManual tools
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Monitoring tools

Amazon provides various tools that you can use to monitor Amazon IoT Events. You can configure some of these tools to do the monitoring for you, while some of the tools require manual intervention. We recommend that you automate monitoring tasks as much as possible.

Automated monitoring tools

You can use the following automated monitoring tools to watch Amazon IoT Events and report when something is wrong:

  • Amazon CloudWatch Logs – Monitor, store, and access your log files from Amazon CloudTrail or other sources. For more information, see Monitoring log files in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide.

  • Amazon CloudWatch Events – Match events and route them to one or more target functions or streams to make changes, capture state information, and take corrective action. For more information, see What is Amazon CloudWatch Events in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide.

  • Amazon CloudTrail Log Monitoring – Share log files between accounts, monitor CloudTrail log files in real time by sending them to CloudWatch Logs, write log-processing applications in Java, and validate that your log files have not changed after delivery by CloudTrail. For more information, see Working with CloudTrail log files in the Amazon CloudTrail User Guide.

Manual monitoring tools

Another important part of monitoring Amazon IoT Events involves manually monitoring those items that the CloudWatch alarms don't cover. The Amazon IoT Events, CloudWatch, and other Amazon console dashboards provide an at-a-glance view of the state of your Amazon environment. We recommend that you also check the log files on Amazon IoT Events.

  • The Amazon IoT Events console shows:

    • Detector models

    • Detectors

    • Inputs

    • Settings

  • The CloudWatch home page shows:

    • Current alarms and status

    • Graphs of alarms and resources

    • Service health status

    In addition, you can use CloudWatch to do the following:

    • Create customized dashboards to monitor the services you care about

    • Graph metric data to troubleshoot issues and discover trends

    • Search and browse all your Amazon resource metrics

    • Create and edit alarms to be notified of problems