CloudWatch Flashcards
1
Q
What is cloudwatch agent and logs agent?
A
It is the program that exports the metrics/logs to cloudwatch. It needs to be installed on EC2 to export logs. Can also be installed on premise
2
Q
What can Amazon EventBridge do?
A
Scheduled scripts to trigger something in AWS (ex.: trigger lambda every hour)
event pattern: rules to react to a service doing something (ex.: IAM login - send to SNS topic)
3
Q
What is X ray and is maiin features?
A
X ray provides a visual analysis of your applications - good for microservices architecture and can trace every request.
4
Q
How to run X ray and ECS together?
A
EC2 launch type: run the x ray daemon on EC2 instances
or
run x ray side car for each app container (only option for fargate)
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