# Monitor AWS Batch
<a name="logging-and-moritoring-batch"></a>

Monitoring is an important part of maintaining the reliability, availability, and performance of AWS Batch and your AWS solution.

We strongly encourage you to collect monitoring data from all parts of your AWS solution to make it easier to debug a multi-point failure, if one occurs. Start by creating a monitoring plan that answers the following questions. If you're not sure how to answer these, you can still use Amazon CloudWatch Logs to establish your performance baselines.
+ What are your monitoring goals?
+ Which resources will you monitor?
+ How often will you monitor these resources?
+ Which monitoring tools will you use?
+ Who will perform the monitoring tasks?
+ Who should be notified when something goes wrong?

Your next step is to establish a baseline of normal AWS Batch performance in your environment by measuring performance at various times and under different load conditions. As you monitor AWS Batch, keep historical monitoring data so that you can compare it with current performance data. This will help you identify normal performance patterns and performance anomalies, and devise methods to address issues.

The topics in this section can help you start logging and monitoring AWS Batch.

**Topics**
+ [Using CloudWatch Logs with AWS Batch](using_cloudwatch_logs.md)
+ [AWS Batch CloudWatch Container Insights](cloudwatch-container-insights.md)
+ [Use CloudWatch Logs to monitor AWS Batch on Amazon EKS jobs](batch-eks-cloudwatch-logs.md)
+ [Tutorial: Collect host-level logs with Fluent Bit](batch-host-logs-fluentbit.md)
+ [AWS Health Planned lifecycle events](batch-planned-lifecycle-events.md)

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for AWS Batch. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query batch` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).