EC2 CloudWatch Flashcards
What is Amazon CloudWatch?
Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring service to monitor your AWS resources, as well as the applications that you run on AWS
What are the services CloudWatch can monitor?
- Compute
- EC2 Instances
- Autoscaling Groups
- Elastic Load Balancers
- Route 53 Health Checks
- Storage & Content Delivery
- EBS Volumes
- Storage Gateways
- CloudFront
What metrics can CloudWatch monitor at a host level?
- CPU
- Network
- Disk
- Status Check
What is AWS CloudTrail?
AWS CloudTrail increases visibility into your user and resource activity by recording AWS Management Console actions and API calls.
What specifically can AWS CloudTrail identify?
- which users and accounts called AWS
- the source IP address from which the calls were made
- when the calls occurred
What is the difference between AWS CloudWatch and AWS CloudTrail?
- CloudWatch monitors performance
- CloudTrail monitors API calls in the AWS platform
How often does CloudWatch with EC2 monitor events?
- every 5 minutes by default
- you can have 1 minute intervals by turning on detailed monitoring
What are the things you can do with CloudWatch?
- Dashboards - see whats happening with your AWS Environment
- Alarms - notify you when particular thresholds are hit
- Events - help you respond to state changes in your AWS resources
- Logs - aggregate, monitor, and store cloud data
How would I set up to be automatically notified if my account spending goes over a certain amount?
Create a billing alarm in CloudWatch