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DOP-C02 · Question #264

A company has configured Amazon RDS storage autoscaling for its RDS DB instances. A DevOps team needs to visualize the autoscaling events on an Amazon CloudWatch dashboard. Which solution will meet th

The correct answer is A. Create an Amazon EventBridge rule that reacts to RDS storage autoscaling events from RDS. While CloudTrail can capture RDS events and send them to CloudWatch Logs, creating a metric filter in CloudWatch Logs is more complex and indirect compared to using EventBridge and a Lambda function to publish custom metrics directly to CloudWatch.

Submitted by fatima_kr· Mar 6, 2026Monitoring and Logging

Question

A company has configured Amazon RDS storage autoscaling for its RDS DB instances. A DevOps team needs to visualize the autoscaling events on an Amazon CloudWatch dashboard. Which solution will meet this requirement?

Options

  • ACreate an Amazon EventBridge rule that reacts to RDS storage autoscaling events from RDS
  • BCreate a trail by using AWS CloudTrail with management events configured. Configure the trail to
  • CCreate an Amazon EventBridge rule that reacts to RDS storage autoscaling events from the RDS
  • DCreate a trail by using AWS CloudTrail with data events configured. Configure the trail to send the

How the community answered

(48 responses)
  • A
    92% (44)
  • B
    4% (2)
  • C
    2% (1)
  • D
    2% (1)

Explanation

While CloudTrail can capture RDS events and send them to CloudWatch Logs, creating a metric filter in CloudWatch Logs is more complex and indirect compared to using EventBridge and a Lambda function to publish custom metrics directly to CloudWatch.

Topics

#Event-driven automation#Amazon EventBridge#RDS autoscaling events#CloudWatch dashboards

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