AWS SysOps Admin: Implement Metrics, Alarms, and Filters

by Wes Novack

Observability and insight into your cloud infrastructure is critical. This course teaches how to implement metrics, alarms, and filters with AWS services as covered in Domain 1 of the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate exam.

What you'll learn

Creating and deploying cloud objects and applications can get complex quickly. In order to manage this complexity and gain visibility, you need observability! In this course, AWS SysOps Admin: Implement Metrics, Alarms, and Filters, you’ll learn to implement metrics, alarms, and filters with AWS services and tools to prepare you for the first portion of the Monitoring, Logging and Remediation domain of the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate exam. First, you’ll explore identifying, collecting, analyzing, and exporting logs. Next, you’ll discover how to use the Amazon CloudWatch Agent. Finally, you’ll learn how to configure notifications and alarms. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of logging, monitoring, and alerting services covered in Domain 1 of the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate exam

About the author

Wes is a Technology Leader, who has held Architect and Engineer roles specializing in public cloud systems and web scale SaaS Operations. He has designed, built, and managed applications and systems that enable highly-available infrastructure, continuous delivery pipelines, and rapid releases in large, polyglot microservice ecosystems. Wes uses a variety of languages, frameworks, and tooling to build applications, define Infrastructure as Code, drive automation, and eliminate toil. He is vocal i... more

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