AWS Cloud Development Kit - From Beginner to Professional - CloudWatch Live Dashboards and Widgets

The video tutorial covers the creation and management of AWS CloudWatch dashboards and widgets. It explains the importance of consolidating metrics from various cloud resources like Lambda functions and EC2 instances into a single dashboard for better monitoring and action-taking. The tutorial walks through setting up a CDK stack, creating custom metrics and alarms, and building a dashboard with graph and single value widgets. It also demonstrates testing the dashboard and enabling dark mode for better visualization.

What is the purpose of using Cloud Watch dashboards?

How can you visualize metrics from Lambda functions in Cloud Watch?

What are the benefits of having a constantly updating dashboard?

Explain the process of creating a custom metric filter in Cloud Watch.

How can you monitor third-party API calls using Cloud Watch?

How do you create alarms based on specific metrics in Cloud Watch?

What actions can be taken when an alarm is triggered in Cloud Watch?

What are the different types of metrics mentioned for Cloud Watch dashboards?

Describe how to add a graph widget to a Cloud Watch dashboard.

What is the significance of using dark mode in Cloud Watch dashboards?