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Daniel Lorch

Author: Daniel Lorch

Daniel Lorch is a DevOps Architect at AWS Professional Services, supporting customers with their challenges in DevOps by leveraging automation, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, and engineering best practices.

Deliver Java JMX statistics to Amazon CloudWatch using the CloudWatch Agent and CollectD

A common problem customers face is alerting when their Java-based workloads experience performance issues, such as heap constraints. In this post, I’ll illustrate how relevant metrics from the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) can be collected and sent to Amazon CloudWatch, where customers can define alerts that fire when workloads are in jeopardy. Overview Let’s consider […]