CloudWatch: AWS Custom Metrics & Business Impact
This is a basic tutorial that explains the importance of tracking results and how to collect data using Custom Metrics using AWS CloudWatch Metrics.
The ultimate purpose of this story is to allow the reader to understand some of the terminologies of CloudWatch and to always push for challenging goal that leads to higher performance teams/individual.
Not interested in the business impact, jump directly to the technical side!
Business Impact (KPI)
A Key Performance Indicator is a measurable value that demonstrates how effectively a company or an individual is achieving key objectives.
If you want to be successful in achieving your goal, you need to show to yourself and the rest of the business progressive results in a specific time-frame, specifying why those objectives are relevant to yourself or the company and how realistic is the completion.
We live in a world driven by data, and the easy way to track progress is to use that data in our favour! With real-time/daily/weekly update, you will be able to:
- Track your progress and share it to the rest of the business.
- Knowing if you are on track for the deadline.
- Being able to control the outcome.
