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Monitoring with AWS CloudTrail

Monitoring the service API usage in an AWS account is important from a security and auditing perspective. This course will teach several techniques for monitoring with CloudTrail and CloudWatch Logs using real world examples.

Intermediate
52m
(16)

Created by Chad Smith

Last Updated Mar 11, 2021

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Monitoring with AWS CloudTrail

Monitoring the service API usage in an AWS account is important from a security and auditing perspective. This course will teach several techniques for monitoring with CloudTrail and CloudWatch Logs using real world examples.

Intermediate
52m
(16)

Created by Chad Smith

Last Updated Mar 11, 2021

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What you'll learn

Monitoring in the AWS ecosystem can cover a wider range of actions than an on-premise data center, including the ability to monitor the API events issued against your account. In this course, Monitoring with AWS CloudTrail, you'll learn how to integrate CloudTrail events with CloudWatch Logs through several real-world examples. First, you will learn about the CloudTrail entry format. Next, you will learn how to create metric filters. Finally, you will combine this knowledge into CloudWatch alarms and notifications. By the end of this course, you'll be able to identify opportunities for monitoring API events in your AWS account and effectively deploy metric filters with CloudWatch alarms for appropriate notifications and response.

Monitoring with AWS CloudTrail
Intermediate
52m
(16)
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Chad Smith
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Chad is an AWS Architect and certified AWS trainer. He has 20+ years background with Unix, networking, and corporate IT from small business to enterprise environments.

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