AWS, Cloud

Schedule Lambda On Cron Expression Triggers

Lambda is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) masterpiece which helps in leveraging compute services for a duration of seconds to minutes and hence reduces the infrastructure costs manifolds and its maintenance. The Cron expressions are created, evaluated and triggered using Cloudwatch Management Console. The possible cron expressions for AWS...

by Vaibhav Gulati
Tag: AWS cloudwatch
30-May-2017

AWS, DevOps

Grouping together my metrics using AWS CloudWatch Dashboards

The AWS re:Invent 2015 has brought with itself a lot of new iterations of services and a lot of new services as well. One such iteration of AWS CloudWatch is the AWS CloudWatch Dashboards. Any of you who might have used tools like Datadog would definitely have heard of metric Dashboards where you can create you custom Dashboards....

by Ranvijay Jamwal
Tag: AWS cloudwatch
10-Oct-2015

AWS, DevOps

Monitoring Docker container status using AWS CloudWatch

There are no such tools till now to monitor whether your Docker container is running or not. Now, I had a Docker container running in production and I could not afford not knowing whenever it went down or rather stopped. So, I decided to do something about it. The blog is about the same. What we will be doing is checking whether the...

by Ranvijay Jamwal
Tag: AWS cloudwatch
29-Sep-2015