EC2 - CloudWatch Lab Flashcards
Basic monitoring
Metrics are monitored every 5 minutes
Detailed monitoring
Metrics are monitored every 1 minute
What CloudWatch metrics are available by default for EC2 instances?
CPU, Disk, Network, Status Check
Status checks at which level?
Instance, host
To view RAM utilization…
you need to create a custom metric
CloudWatch Events…
…help you respond to state changes in your AWS resources
Logs…
…you can go into application layer and log different events (as opposed to host layer for dashboards). helps you to aggregate, monitor, and store logs
CloudWatch is for…
performance monitoring
CloudTrail is for…
auditing whatever happens with AWS account