Monitoring

Question 1

Amazon CloudWatch

Answer 1

is a web service that enables you to monitor and manage various metrics and configure alarm actions based on data from those metrics.

Question 2

CloudWatch alarms

Answer 2

you can create alarms that automatically perform actions if the value of your metric has gone above or below a predefined threshold.

For example, suppose that your company’s developers use Amazon EC2 instances for application development or testing purposes. If the developers occasionally forget to stop the instances, the instances will continue to run and incur charges.

In this scenario, you could create a CloudWatch alarm that automatically stops an Amazon EC2 instance when the CPU utilization percentage has remained below a certain threshold for a specified period. When configuring the alarm, you can specify to receive a notification whenever this alarm is triggered.

Question 3

CloudTrail

Answer 3

With CloudTrail, you can view a complete history of user activity and API calls for your applications and resources.
filter events by specifying the time and date that an API call occurred, the user who requested the action, the type of resource that was involved in the API call, and more

Question 4

CloudTrail Insights

Answer 4

Identify unusual activities in AWS account

Question 5

AWS Trusted Advisor

Answer 5

is a web service that inspects your AWS environment and provides real-time recommendations in accordance with AWS best practices.

Question 6

What are the 5 categories of AWS Trusted Advisor?

Answer 6

cost optimization, performance, security, fault tolerance, and service limits.

Question 7

What does green check mean
the orange
the red?

Answer 7

The green check indicates the number of items for which it detected no problems.

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The orange triangle represents the number of recommended investigations.

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The red circle represents the number of recommended actions.