Cloudwatch Flashcards
What does cloud watch do?
Allows you to monitor and react to events within your cloud.
Allows you to consolidate logging in one place.
What are the two versions of cloud watch?
Basic
Enhanced
In cloud watch. How often does basic monitoring refresh?
Every five minutes.
In cloud watch. With enhanced monitoring. How often does data refresh?
Every minute.
How is cloudwatch enhanced priced?
By region
By dashboard
By metrics used
What does cloudwatch alarms do?
Trigger actions when set conditions are met.
By default. Cloudwatch is able to monitor memory and disk usage of an EC2 instance?
False.
In cloudwatch dashboards. Graphing is highly customisable?
True.
Alarms send notifications via
SNS
What does Unified Cloud Watch Agent do?
Collects additional data from EC2 and Linux instances
Steps required to install unified cloudwatch agent
Create a role and add it to the instance
Install
Configure with SSM
Two types of roles are required to install the unified cloudwatch agent. They are…
- To install the agent and send data
2. To communicate with the parameter store in SSM
EC2 instances. Being monitored by the unified cloud watch agent require access to the internet. True or false?
True.