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SOA-C02 · Question #505

A company runs an application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The EC2 instances are in an Auto Scaling group. The application sometimes becomes slow and unresponsive…

The correct answer is C. Use CloudWatch metrics explorer to filter by the aws:autoscaling:groupName tag and to create a. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/11/amazon-cloudwatch-launches-metrics-

Submitted by klara.se· Mar 30, 2026Monitoring, Logging, and Remediation

Question

A company runs an application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The EC2 instances are in an Auto Scaling group. The application sometimes becomes slow and unresponsive. Amazon CloudWatch metrics show that some EC2 instances are experiencing high CPU load. A SysOps administrator needs to create a CloudWatch dashboard that can automatically display CPU metrics of all the EC2 instances. The metrics must include new instances that are launched as part of the Auto Scaling group. What should the SysOps administrator do to meet these requirements in the MOST operationally efficient way?

Options

  • ACreate a CloudWatch dashboard. Use activity notifications from the Auto Scaling group to invoke
  • BCreate a CloudWatch dashboard. Run a custom script on each EC2 instance to stream the CPU
  • CUse CloudWatch metrics explorer to filter by the aws:autoscaling:groupName tag and to create a
  • DUse CloudWatch metrics explorer to filter by instance state and to create a visualization for the

How the community answered

(68 responses)
  • A
    3% (2)
  • B
    13% (9)
  • C
    79% (54)
  • D
    4% (3)

Explanation

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/11/amazon-cloudwatch-launches-metrics-

Topics

#CloudWatch metrics explorer#Auto Scaling monitoring#CPU metrics#dynamic dashboard

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