April - 2022

Reduce your CloudWatch Costs in On-premise Environments

One of the most important services that AWS Provide us is CloudWatch This service allows you to monitor your resources and be alert to possible failures. You can use CloudWatch to collect metrics (Like cpu usage, disk usage, memory, etc) directly from your Resources and send them to AWS so you can determine how the current performance and status of your resources are. Among these resources, there may be devices and peripherals from which it’s not necessary to collect metrics.

Teratip: How to monitor an ECS task running on Fargate with Datadog

Let’s say you already have Datadog configured to monitor your workloads in AWS and you want to get more insights from some ECS tasks running on Fargate. In order to do that, you will need to add the Datadog Agent to your task as a sidecar container -i.e. an additional container that runs alongside the application container. Below is an example of the container definitions block of an ECS task definition. The first container is a custom application and the second one is the Da