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AWS SysOps Admin: Implement Metrics, Alarms, and Filters

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.

Wes Novack - Pluralsight course - AWS SysOps Admin: Implement Metrics, Alarms, and Filters
by Wes Novack

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

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Wes Novack - Pluralsight course - AWS SysOps Admin: Implement Metrics, Alarms, and Filters
Wes Novack

Wes is an Architect and Engineer specializing in public cloud systems and web scale SaaS Operations. He designs, builds, and manages 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 in the tech community by participating in mentorship, workshops and conferences, and is a Pluralsight Author. Wes is an advocate for Software Craft and the CALMS of DevOps; Culture, Automation, Lean, Measurement, and Sharing.

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