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Monitor a Basic EC2 Workload with Amazon CloudWatch
You'll use Amazon CloudWatch to observe a running EC2 workload, establish what its normal behavior looks like, and then catch and resolve a problem when one appears. Working from live metrics, logs, and instance state, you'll learn to tell healthy operation from trouble and use those signals to narrow down a real operational issue. By the end, you'll have hands-on practice with the core skill every cloud operator relies on: reading CloudWatch to know whether a workload is actually fine.
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Challenge
Observe the normal behavior of the EC2 workload
- Locate the CloudWatch metric views that show the workload's current state.
- Verify the expected baseline behavior before any issue is introduced (no issues).
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Identify the abnormal workload condition using CloudWatch signals
- Five to 10 minutes after starting the lab, observe the symptoms of the introduced issue through metrics within CloudWatch.
- Correlate the available signals to narrow down the likely cause.
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Restore expected workload behavior and confirm recovery
- Restart the EC2 instance to correct the identified issue.
- Confirm through CloudWatch that the workload has returned to the expected state.
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