Section 24: AWS Monitoring Flashcards
(17 cards)
API call name to export cloudwatch logs to an S3 bucket
CreateExportTask
Sending cloudwatch logs to resources in a different aws account
Cross-Account Subscription
Cloudwatch alarm targets
EC2
EC2 Auto Scaling
SNS
What to use to combine monitoring of multiple alarms
Composite Alarms
CLI command to test an alarm
set-alarm-state
Cloudwatch service to use for metrics and logs from containers
Container Insights
In amazon EKS and Kubernetes, cloudwatch insights is using a containerized version of what to discover containers?
CloudWatch Agent
What insights would you use to find top talkers and who may be impacting system performance
Contributor Insights
CloudTrails can’t be applied to all regions. True or False
False
3 types of cloudtrail events
Management Events
Data Events(not enabled by default)
CloudTrail Insights Events
How to store CloudTrail events for longer than the 90 day max?
Log them to S3 and use Athena
In regards to AWS monitoring, this service can help with auditing and recording compliance of resources over time
AWS Config
CloudWatch main functions
Performance monitoring
Events and alerting
Log aggregation
CloudTrail Main functions
Record API calls
Define trails for specific resources
True or False. CloudTrail is not a global service.
False
AWS Config main functions
Record config changes
Evaluate resources against compliance rules
Get timeline of changes and compliance
CloudWatch feature that allows you to send CloudWatch metrics in near real-time to S3 bucket (through Kinesis Data Firehose) and 3rd party destinations (e.g., Splunk, Datadog
CloudWatch Metric Stream
