SOA-C03 · Question #112
A company has a web application that is experiencing performance problems many times each night. A root cause analysis reveals sudden increases in CPU utilization that last 5 minutes on an Amazon…
The correct answer is A. Configure the Amazon CloudWatch agent procstat plugin to capture CPU process metrics. The CloudWatch agent procstat plugin can be configured to automatically collect detailed per- process CPU utilization metrics, including process IDs (PIDs), with minimal setup effort. This eliminates the need for manual monitoring or custom scripts, and integrates directly with…
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A company has a web application that is experiencing performance problems many times each night. A root cause analysis reveals sudden increases in CPU utilization that last 5 minutes on an Amazon EC2 Linux instance. A CloudOps engineer must find the process ID (PID) of the service or process that is consuming more CPU. What should the CloudOps engineer do to collect the process utilization information with the LEAST amount of effort?
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- AConfigure the Amazon CloudWatch agent procstat plugin to capture CPU process metrics.
- BConfigure an AWS Lambda function to run every minute to capture the PID and send a
- CLog in to the EC2 instance by using a .pem key each night. Then run the top command.
- DUse the default Amazon CloudWatch CPU utilization metric to capture the PID in CloudWatch.
How the community answered
(21 responses)- A71% (15)
- B10% (2)
- C5% (1)
- D14% (3)
Explanation
The CloudWatch agent procstat plugin can be configured to automatically collect detailed per- process CPU utilization metrics, including process IDs (PIDs), with minimal setup effort. This eliminates the need for manual monitoring or custom scripts, and integrates directly with CloudWatch for visualization, alerting, and analysis - making it the most efficient and scalable
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