Monitoring and Analytics

Question 1

Amazon CloudWatch

Answer 1

Monitors AWS infrastructure and the apps you run on AWS in real time
Tracks and monitors metrics - represent data points for your resources
You can create custom metrics and set thresholds for them - known as alarms
Alarms will automatically perform actions if the value of your metric has gone above or below a predefined threshold
Alarms are integrated with SNS
Dashboard feature - you can create dashboards to proactively monitor metrics
Visibility across applications, infrastructures, and services
Reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR)
Improve total cost of ownership (TCO)
Frees up developers to focus on adding business value

Question 2

AWS CloudTrail

Answer 2

Records API calls for your account
Recorded info includes: identity of API caller, the source IP address of caller, etc
It’s a log of actions that someone leaves behind
Events are updated within 15 min after an API call
Ability to filter events

Question 3

CloudTrail Insights

Answer 3

Automatically detects unusual API activities in your AWS account

Question 4

AWS Trusted Advisor

Answer 4

Evaluates resources against:
Cost optimization
Performance
Security
Fault tolerance
Service limits

Green check = no problems
Orange triangle = investigation recommended
Red circle = recommended actions