SOA-C02 · Question #729
A SysOps administrator needs to implement a monitoring system to collect instance metrics every minute for an application. The application runs on a highly available pair of Amazon EC2 instances…
The correct answer is D. Use detailed monitoring in Amazon CloudWatch for the instance metrics. Configure CloudWatch. CloudWatch detailed monitoring publishes EC2 metrics at 1-minute intervals. You can then set CloudWatch alarms to trigger an SNS email when thresholds are crossed-meeting both the granularity and alerting needs.
Question
A SysOps administrator needs to implement a monitoring system to collect instance metrics every minute for an application. The application runs on a highly available pair of Amazon EC2 instances. The monitoring system must send an email alert when the metrics exceed a predefined threshold. Which solution will meet these requirements?
Options
- AUse the AWS Health Dashboard to extract the instance metrics. Configure Amazon EventBridge to
- BUse AWS CloudTrail to monitor the instances. Copy the logs to an Amazon S3 bucket. Configure
- CUse basic monitoring in Amazon CloudWatch for the instance metrics. Configure CloudWatch
- DUse detailed monitoring in Amazon CloudWatch for the instance metrics. Configure CloudWatch
How the community answered
(53 responses)- A13% (7)
- B8% (4)
- C2% (1)
- D77% (41)
Explanation
CloudWatch detailed monitoring publishes EC2 metrics at 1-minute intervals. You can then set CloudWatch alarms to trigger an SNS email when thresholds are crossed-meeting both the granularity and alerting needs.
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