Monitoring & Reporting Flashcards
What is cloud watch?
For monitor resources on AWS and Apps running on EC2
What Cloud Watch can monitor?
Compute Resources, Storage And Content delivery, Database and Anlaytics and Others
What types of compute resources that Cloud Watch can monitor ?
Scaling Groups, ELB and Route53 Health Checks.
What types of Storage and content delivery that Cloud Watch can monitor ?
EBS, Storage Gateways and CloudFront
What types of Database and Analytics that Cloud Watch can monitor ?
Dynamodb, elastic cache, RDS, Elastic mapReduce job flows, RedShift
What types of others that Cloud Watch can monitor ?
Sns topics, sqs queue, OpsWorks, CloudWatch logs, AWS Bills
What types of metrics that cloud watch can monitor in EC2 ?
# Host level - CPU - Network - Disk I/O - Status Check # Custom metrics: - Ram utilization - How much is left of space from Disk
What is the min granularity that custom metrics can use?
1 minute
What is the default interval for monitor Host level EC2?
5 minutes but can be 1 minute
What are the types that states check can be applied?
EC2 Host and EC2 instance
What is the default time that cloud watch metrics are stored?
Indefinitely, but can be customized to expire in 2 weeks, 2 month and etc…
What is the state that EC2 and ELB can recover logs?
Both EC2 and ELB Logs can be recovered form terminated state.
What is On premise Cloud Watch?
Is when cloud watch is used on local DataCenter/Server with SSM Agent or CloudWatch agent.
What are the types of EBS and uses?
#SSD(GP2) - Most used - Can Boot System #Provisioned IOP SSD(io1) - Great Volume of I/O - Used for > 16,000 IOP #HDD(st1) - For Cheap disk like Big Data, logs, Data warehouse - Cannot use for boot #Cold HDD(SC1) - Super low cost - Infrequent acess - Cannot be used for boot
How GP2 credits works?
Gain 3 IOPs per GB and if is not > 3000 IOPS can use for 30 minutes burst of the left 3000 IOPS, and restore every minute not used.
What is pre-warming on EBS?
Is no longer necessary, but if restore ebs from snapshot is need a pre-warming, so every block of the disk need to be readed.