Summary and Quiz
Get a refresher of what you’ve learned in the “Monitoring and Auditing” section, and take a short quiz to validate your knowledge.
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In this lesson, we’ll summarize what we’ve learned so far in this chapter and test our knowledge of the AWS services we learned about with a short quiz.
Summary
Here’s a summary of the most important key takeaways from this chapter:
AWS CloudWatch
CloudWatch: CloudWatch provides observability by tracking metrics and insights from AWS resources. These metrics are time-ordered data points reflecting the operational state of resources.
CloudWatch Logs and alarms: CloudWatch offers centralized logging (CloudWatch logs) for analyzing log files from various AWS resources. It allows the setting up of CloudWatch alarms, which are triggered when a metric crosses a predefined threshold, initiating CloudWatch events.
Key features in CloudWatch: Here are the most important features of CloudWatch:
Metrics: Quantifiable measures for tracking resource or service status.
CloudWatch Logs: Real-time log data for performance and operational issue analysis.
Alarms: Monitor various metrics and respond to changes.
Events: Trigger actions in ...