Monitoring and Analytics

Question 1

what is Monitoring

Answer 1

Observing systems, collecting metrics and then using data to decide decisions

Question 2

What does AWS have in store for onitoring

Answer 2

Amazon CloudWatch

Question 3

What is Amazon Cloudwatch

Answer 3

A Web service that enables you to monitor and manage various metrics and configure alarms based on the metrics

Question 4

How does the cloudwatch works

Answer 4

CloudWatch uses the metrics to represent the data points for your resources. AWS service sends the metrics to Cloudwatch. Cloudwatch then uses the metrics to create graphical representation

Question 5

Cloudwatch Alarms

Answer 5

We can configure CloudWatch to create Alarms that automatically performs actions if the value of the metrics is gone above or below the threshold. We can configure alarms to send notifications

Question 6

How can we access all metrics from single locations

Answer 6

Cloudwatch Dashboard

Question 8

What is AWS CloudTrail

Answer 8

It records API calls to your account

Question 9

what does the recorded info by cloudtrail consists?

Answer 9

The identity of API caller, the ip address of teh request, the time of the request and so on

Question 10

What is CLoudtrail Insights

Answer 10

Within CLoud trail, we can use Cloudtrail Insights. Optional feature It automatically detects the unusual API activity withon your account