Section 16 - Monitoring Flashcards
1
Q
AWS CloudWatch?
A
- Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring service to minitor the health and performance of your AWS resources
- Including applications that you run on AWS, and in your own datacenter.
- What CloudWatch Monitor:
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Compute
- EC2 Instances
- Auto Scalling groups
- Elastic load balancers
- Route53 health checks
- Lambda
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Storage and Content Delivery
- EBS volumes
- Storage Gateway
- CloudFront
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Database & Analytics
- DynamoDB tables
- ElastiCache nodes
- RDS instances
- Redshift
- Elastic map reduce
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Other
- SNS topics
- SQS queues
- API Gateway
- API Gateway
- Estimated AWS charges
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Compute
2
Q
What is the CloudWatch Agent?
A
- Define your own metrics.
- CloudWatch Logs allows you to monitor operating system and application logs.
3
Q
CloudWatch Exam Tips ?
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- Default EC2 host-level metrics: CPU, Network, Disk, and status check.
- Use the CloudWatch agent for operating system-level metrics like memory usage, processes, and CPU idel time.
- Monitor and store your logs to help you better understand your systems and appplications.
- You can create an alarm to monitor any Amazon CloudWatch metric in your account, generate an alert or take some action.
4
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What is CloudTrail?
A
- AWS CloudTrail is a service that enables governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk auditing of your AWS account.
- With CloudTrail, you can log, continuously monitor, and retain account activity related to actions across your AWS infrastructure.
- CloudTrail provides event history of your AWS account activity, including actions taken through the AWS Management Console, AWS SDKs, command line tools, and other AWS services.
- This event history simplifies security analysis, resource change tracking, and troubleshooting. In addition, you can use CloudTrail to detect unusual activity in your AWS accounts.
- These capabilities help simplify operational analysis and troubleshooting.
