Integrate Amazon CloudWatch with Twitter

Amazon CloudWatch is a web service that provides monitoring and performance metrics about AWS resources, as well as enabling the storage and management of detailed monitoring and logging information. Amazon CloudWatch users can monitor AWS resources in real time. Resources include EC2 instances, applications running in AWS, and the AWS platform itself. Amazon CloudWatch data is available via an API or command line interface (CLI.

Twitter is a social networking website that allows its users to send and read other users' updates known as tweets. Users can post messages to others using the website's interface. Users can also send private messages to other users. Users can subscribe to other users to receive their tweets via email. The tweets are made up of text, hashtags, media attachments, and location. The hashtag was created by Twitter users as a way to categorize messages. It was quickly adopted by Twitter itself for use as a searchable element.

Integration of Amazon CloudWatch and Twitter

Amazon CloudWatch users can integrate their Twitter account to receive tweets about their cloud resources by following these steps:

• Log onto the Amazon CloudWatch Console at http://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/
• On the left menu bar, click on "Dashboards", then click on "New Dashboard"
• Create a new dashboard by giving it a name and clicking on "create". A new dashboard will appear
• Click on "Add Metric" then on the right menu bar, click on "CloudWatch" and then on "New metric"
• Select "Real-Time Stats", then click on "Next Step"
• Select "Tweet Count Volume Average", then click on "Next Step"

7. Attach the Twitter account by putting the Twitter username into the "Twitter Username" field and then click on "Next Step". A window will pop up requesting your Twitter password. Type your password into the box, then click on "Authorize".7. Click on "Next Step"8. Select the checkbox next to the resource whose tweets you want to see, then select one of the following options:9. Click on "Create"

Benefits of Integration of Amazon CloudWatch and Twitter

There are many benefits of integrating Amazon CloudWatch and Twitter including.

• Monitoring the health of instances.
• Easily identifying unnecessary costs.
• Easily identifying problems that may be affecting application performance.
• Realizing potential cost savings by identifying cloud resources that are not being utilized.
• Identifying instances that are most active in terms of bandwidth usage.

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