cloudwatch actions

Question 1

What do CloudWatch Actions allow you to do?

Answer 1

CloudWatch Actions allow you to publish, monitor, and alert on a variety of metrics.

Question 2

What does PutMetricData do?

Answer 2

PutMetricData publishes metric data points to CloudWatch.

Question 3

What does PutMetricAlarm do?

Answer 3

PutMetricAlarm creates an alarm associated with a metric to alert you if a threshold has been reached.

Question 4

What is CloudWatch Log Insights?

Answer 4

CloudWatch Log Insights allows you to query and analyze data stored in CloudWatch Logs. It also generates visualizations and provides example queries like ‘Most expensive lambda requests’ and ‘Display 25 most recently added log events’.

Question 5

How can you receive notifications with CloudWatch?

Answer 5

You can use CloudWatch Alarms to notify you when a threshold is hit. CloudWatch can also send you email notifications using an SNS topic.

Question 6

What are CloudWatch Alarms used for?

Answer 6

CloudWatch Alarms are used to notify you when a threshold is hit for a metric.

Question 7

How does CloudWatch send email notifications?

Answer 7

CloudWatch sends email notifications using an SNS topic.