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Question 1

CloudWatch Logs

What can you do to keep high resolution data longer?

Answer 1

ExportToS3 feature

Question 2

CloudWatch Logs

How can you create CloudWatch Metrics from CloudWatch Logs?

Answer 2

Metric Filter: scan CWL, write to CW Metrics.

Question 3

CloudWatch Logs

What feature allows you to create a metric from text occuring in a log group?

Answer 3

Metric Filter (not a Log Filter)

Question 4

CloudWatch Logs

What defines a Log Stream?

Answer 4

All log messages from the same source

Question 5

Ingestion

Interesting thing with Route53 and CWL?

Answer 5

Can be set up to pull all DNS requests everywhere into one CWL.

Question 6

Ingestion

Are CWL global, regional, zonal?

Answer 6

Regional except for global AWS services that all log to only us-east-1.

Question 7

Ingestion

Where do you set permissions on CloudWatch Log resources?

Answer 7

On the Log Group

Question 8

Ingestion

Where do you set retention on CloudWatch Log resources?

Answer 8

On the Log Group

Question 9

Ingestion

Where do you set encryption on CloudWatch Log resources?

Answer 9

On the Log Group

Question 10

Ingestion

What kind of encryption is available for CWL?

Answer 10

KMS-based encryption at rest