CW

Question 1

When should you use Cloud Watch?

Answer 1

real time monitoring and logging

Question 2

When should you use CloudTrail?

Answer 2

auditing and tracking activity

Question 3

When should you use AWS Config?

Answer 3

tracking resource configuration changes

Question 4

What is the difference between Standard vs High Resolution metrics in Cloud Watch?

Answer 4

The frequency and granularity of data collection

Standard collects data every 1 min
High Resolution collects data more frequently than every min ie., 1 or 10 sec

Question 5

Can Cloud Watch metrics be used for scheduling lambda functions?

Answer 5

Yes

Question 6

For Cloud Watch, when would you use Standard metrics vs when would use use Customer Metrics?

Answer 6

Instance Memory Utilization needs custom metrics

Question 7

What is difference in time between basic, detailed and high resolution monitoring?

Answer 7

Basic - 5 mins
Detailed - 1 min
High resolution - 1s

Question 8

When would you use standard cloudwatch metrics (5 mins)

Answer 8

Web servers
Database servers
Batch processing
Autoscaling for web apps
EC2 instances

Question 9

When would you use high resolution cloudwatch metrics (more frequent than every minute ie., 10 secs or 1 sec)

Answer 9

Real time analytics
Microservice architectures
Serverless apps
IoTs devices
Auto Scaling for Elastic Workloads
Latency critical apps ie., online gaming / real time video streaming
Security and Anomaly detection