In this book, you have learned about native AWS monitoring tools such as Trusted Advisor and CloudWatch, which are very important for an administrator to master. A partner product called nOps augments and extends this native functionality to provide user-friendly dashboards and reports to help you quickly get an overview of your account. nOps does some impressive deep analysis of the resources in your account to make recommendations around cost-saving and security improvements. If you are conducting a Well-Architected review of a workload, nOps can be a huge time-saver since it automatically gathers data from your account and answers many questions in a deterministic fashion, rather than relying on memory or documentation that might be out of date.

In this recipe, you will learn how to create a nOps trial account, connect it to your AWS account, and run reports to give you insights into everything that is happening within your infrastructure.