In this recipe, we will learn how to log in and check the CloudWatch logs and metrics from the AWS Management Console. This is a simple recipe that is included in this chapter mainly to aid us in our other recipes where we can use CloudWatch to check logs or a metric. If you are familiar with checking logs and metrics from the console, you can skip this recipe.

In this recipe, we will only be discussing metrics that were automatically created by CloudWatch based on the resources we create—for example, Lambdas. In later recipes, we will learn how to create custom metrics from AWS CLI and how to use custom metrics in alarms.