Observe your Azure and AWS workloads simultaneously with Amazon CloudWatch
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This article explains how to monitor workloads across Azure and AWS simultaneously using Amazon CloudWatch. It allows you to gain visibility into hybrid and multicloud environments, visualizing metrics like CPU utilization from both Azure Virtual Machines and AWS EC2 instances on the same CloudWatch dashboard.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Prerequisites (AWS and Azure accounts with specific permissions)
- Step-by-step instructions to set up the integration:
- Create an Azure app registration with appropriate permissions
- Grant permissions to the Azure subscription
- Configure CloudWatch to read metric data from Azure Monitor
- Visualize data from your Azure environment in CloudWatch
- Troubleshooting common issues with the integration
- Taking the integration further by creating CloudWatch alarms based on Azure metrics
- Cost considerations and teardown instructions
In summary, this integration allows you to centralize monitoring of your AWS and Azure workloads in CloudWatch, enabling better visibility and operational excellence in a multicloud environment.
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