Module 7: Monitoring and Analytics

Question 1

Amazon CloudWatch

Answer 1

• A web service that enables you to monitor and manage various metrics and configure alarm actions based on data from those metrics.
• Uses metrics to represent the data points for your resources.
• Can create alarms that automatically perform actions if the value of your metric has gone above and below a predefined threshold.

Question 2

AWS CloudTrail

Answer 2

• Records API calls for your account.
• You can view a complete history of use activity and API calls for your applications and resources.
• Updated within 15 minutes after an API call.

Question 3

CloudTrail Insights

Answer 3

An optional feature that allows CloudTrail to automatically detect unusual API activities in your AWS account.

Question 4

AWS Trusted Advisor

Answer 4

• A web service that inspects your AWS environment and provides real-time recommendations in accordance with AWS best practices.
• Compares its findings to AWS best practices in 5 categories: cost, optimization, performance, security, fault tolerance, and service limits.