Lecture 12: Cloud Monitoring Flashcards

1
Q

____________ provides metrics for every service in AWS

A

CloudWatch

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2
Q

_________ is a variable to monitor (CPUUtilization, Networking)

A

Metric

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3
Q

Timestamps

A

Metrics have ______________

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4
Q

CloudWatch dashboards

A

Can create _________________ of metrics

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5
Q
  • CPU utilization, status checks, networks (not RAM)
A

For EC2 instances what are the most important metrics?

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6
Q

Disk read/write

A

For EBS volumes what are your most important metrics?

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7
Q
  • Bucket size bytes
  • Number of objects
  • All requests
A

For S3 buckets what are the most important metrics?

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8
Q
  • Total estimated charged (Only in us east -1)
A

For billing what is the most important metrics?

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9
Q

How much you’ve been using a service API

A

What is the most important metric for service limits?

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10
Q

Pushing your own metrics

A

What is the most important metric for custom metrics?

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11
Q

_____________ are used to trigger notifications for any metric

A

Alarms

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12
Q

-Auto-scaling- increasing or decreasing EC2 instances “desired” count

  • EC2 actions- stop, terminate, reboot, or recover an EC2 instance
  • SNS notifications - send a notification into an SNS topic
A

What are some different alarm actions?

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13
Q
  • Troubleshooting Performance (bottlenecks)
  • Understand dependencies in a microservice architecture

-Pinpoint service issues

  • Review request behavior
  • Find errors and exceptions
A

What are some advantages to using AWS X-Ray?

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14
Q

The ___________ shows all regions and all services health

A

AWS Health Dashboard- Service history

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15
Q

____________ provides you alerts and remediation guidance when AWS is experiencing events that may impact you

A

AWS Health Dashboard- your account (used to be called personal health dashboard)

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16
Q

While the service health dashboard displays the general status of AWS service, _____________ gives you a personalized view into the performance and availability of the AWS services underlying your AWS resources

A

Account health dashboard

17
Q

Relevant and timely information

A

The dashboard displays ______________ to help you manage events in progress and provides proactive notification to help you plan for schedule activities (can aggregate data from an entire AWS organization)

18
Q

_________ automated analysis of your CloudTrail events

A

CloudTrail insights

19
Q

___________ automate code reviews and applications performance recommendations

A

Amazon CodeGuru

20
Q

You can use __________ to monitor, store, and access your log files from Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, AWS Cloud Trail, Route 53, and other sources.

A

Amazon CloudWatch Logs