Using CloudWatch for Resource Monitoring

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Using CloudWatch for Resource Monitoring

This lab provides practical experience creating and configuring multiple custom AWS CloudWatch dashboards and widgets. The primary focus will be on the following features within CloudWatch: CloudWatch dashboards, dashboard widgets, and CloudWatch metrics. CloudWatch dashboards built with custom widgets allow you to visually monitor resources and proactively take action, if needed. Overall, the dashboards give you a central, visual view of how your monitored resources are behaving at specific points in time.

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Lab Info

Level

Intermediate

Last updated

Sep 25, 2025

Duration

30m

Challenge

Create a CloudWatch Dashboard for the DMZ Layer

Create a CloudWatch dashboard specific to the DMZ layer. Name your dashboard DMZLayer. Next, set up a widget within the DMZLayer dashboard for the bastion host instance set to monitor the CPUUtilization metric.
Challenge

Create a CloudWatch Dashboard for the Application Layer

Create a separate CloudWatch dashboard with widgets displaying metrics specific to the application layer. Name the dashboard AppLayer. Create a widget for the Application ELB that monitors the RequestCount metric. Create two more widgets in your dashboard to monitor the CPUUtilization and NetworkIn metrics for the WordPress instances as well as the MySQL database. Remember to save the dashboards before ending the lab.
Challenge

Test the Widgets

Create a WordPress instance to test and monitor the widgets.

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