AWS Cloudwatch Flashcards
Learn things about cloudwatch
1
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The four key components of CloudWatch
A
Metrics, Alarms, Logs, Events
2
Q
What is CW used for ?
A
To monitor the health and status of AWS resources and take action based on that information
3
Q
What are the sources of CW metrics ?
A
Services auotmatically publish most metrics but customers can use the CW API to publish their own metrics data via CLI or SDK
4
Q
What is a CW Alarm
A
Alarms allow customers to monitor metrics and take specific actions when a threshold is breached
5
Q
What are some examples of actions that can be taken from a CW alarm ?
A
Send an SNS notification, scale out an ASG, reboot an EC2 instance
