Logging and monitoring in Amazon QLDB
Monitoring is an important part of maintaining the reliability, availability, and performance of Amazon QLDB and your AWS solutions. You should collect monitoring data from all of the parts of your AWS solution so that you can more easily debug a multi-point failure if one occurs. However, before you start monitoring QLDB, you should create a monitoring plan that includes answers to the following questions:
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What are your monitoring goals?
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What resources will you monitor?
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How often will you monitor these resources?
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What monitoring tools will you use?
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Who will perform the monitoring tasks?
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Who should be notified when something goes wrong?
The next step is to establish a baseline for normal QLDB performance in your environment, by measuring performance at various times and under different load conditions. As you monitor QLDB, store historical monitoring data so that you can compare it with current performance data, identify normal performance patterns and performance anomalies, and devise methods to address issues.
To establish a baseline you should, at a minimum, monitor the following items:
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Read and write I/Os and storage, so that you can track your ledger's consumption patterns for billing purposes.
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Command latency, so that you can track your ledger's performance when running data operations.
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Exceptions, so that you can determine whether any requests resulted in an error.
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