Cloud Monitoring Flashcards
What is Amazon CloudWatch Metrics
provides metrics for every service in AWS
the metric is a variable to monitor
Metrics have timestamps
Can create CloudWatch dashboards of metrics
What are Amazon CloudWatch Alarms
Alarms are used to trigger notifications for any metric
Alarms actions
-Auto Scaling: stop, terminate, reboot or recover an EC2 instance
-SNS notifications
What is Amazon CloudWatch Logs
collect logs from
-Elastic Beanstalk,ECS,AWS Lambda ,Cloudtrail,Route 53 etc
What is Amazon CloudWatch Events
a way for you to react to events happening in AWS
Schedule:Cron jobs
Event Pattern: Event rules to react to a service doing something
Trigger Lambda functions, send SQS/SNS messages
What is Amazon EventBridge
The evolution of CloudWatch Events Default event bus Partner event bus Custom event bus Schema Registry
What is AWS CloudTrail
Provides governance, compliance, and audit for your AWS account
Get the history of events
A trail can be applied to All Regions
If a resource is deleted a trial will be made
What is AWS X-Ray
Visual analysis of our apps from multilple places
What can you do with AWS X-ray
Troubleshooting performance Understand dependencies in a microservice architecture Pinpoint service issues Review request behavior Find errors and exceptions Are we meeting time SLA Where am I throttled Identify users that are impacted
What is Amazon CodeGuru
automated code reviews and app performance recommendations
What is AWS Status - Service Health Dashboard
Shows all regions, all services
Shows historical info for each day
Has an RSS feed you can subscribe to
What is the AWS Personal Health Dashboard
provides alerts and remediation guidance when AWS is experiencing events that may impact you
gives you a personalized view into the performance and availability of the AWS services underlying your AWS resources
relevant and timely info to help you manage events in progress and provides proactive notification to help you plan for scheduled activities
