Monitoring, Logging, and Observability on AWS Flashcards
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Which CloudWatch component triggers an action when a metric crosses a defined threshold?
Answer: CloudWatch Alarm
CloudWatch Alarms watch a single metric over a specified time period and perform one or more actions when the metric breaches a threshold.
Which AWS service enables you to define rules for evaluating the compliance of AWS resource configurations over time?
Answer: AWS Config
AWS Config continuously evaluates your AWS resource configurations against desired rules, providing compliance status and configuration history.
Which Amazon CloudWatch feature allows you to run synthetic canary scripts to monitor application endpoints?
Answer: CloudWatch Synthetics
CloudWatch Synthetics creates canary scripts that run on a schedule to simulate user interactions and monitor endpoint availability and latency.
What does Amazon CloudWatch Real User Monitoring (RUM) collect?
Answer: Performance data from real user browser sessions
CloudWatch RUM collects and analyzes client-side performance data from real user browser sessions, including page load times and JavaScript errors.
Which CloudWatch feature identifies the top contributors to a metric, such as the IPs generating the most traffic?
Answer: Contributor Insights
CloudWatch Contributor Insights creates time series data that displays contributor data from your logs, identifying the top-N contributors to a metric.
Which AWS service provides centralized security findings from GuardDuty, Inspector, and Macie in a single dashboard?
Answer: AWS Security Hub
AWS Security Hub aggregates and prioritizes security findings from multiple AWS services and third-party tools into a unified security posture view.
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