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Monitor Resources and Deployed Configurations Using AWS CloudWatch

In this lab, you’ll practice configuring metric monitoring and CloudWatch alarms. When you’re finished with this lab, you’ll have the knowledge and skills to monitor dynamic and custom AWS resources for changes, and to create alarms.

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Intermediate
Duration
1h 5m
Released
Dec 21, 2021

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Lab Author: Aaron Rosenmund
Aaron Rosenmund
Aaron M. Rosenmund is a cyber security operations subject matter expert, with a background in federal and business defensive and offensive cyber operations and system automation. Leveraging his administration and automation experience, Aaron actively contributes to multiple open and closed source security operation platform projects and continues to create tools and content to benefit the community. As an educator & cyber security researcher at Pluralsight, he is focused on advancing cyber secur... moreity workforce and technologies for business and national enterprises alike. In support of the Air National Guard, he contributes those skills part time in various initiatives to defend the nation in cyberspace. Certifications: GIAC GCIA, GIAC GCED, CCNA Cyber Operations, Pentest+, CySa+, CASP www.AaronRosenmund.com @arosenmund "ironcat"
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Create a Custom Dashboard

When getting started with CloudWatch, there are a large number of metrics and visualizations, but not every metric is important to you. To get started, you will create a dashboard to monitor only specific application services.

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Add Disk Specific Disk Usage Monitoring to the Custom Dashboard

The previous dashboard is helpful, but does not reflect the storage resources that take the brunt of the work of the databases. Now you will identify the volume associated with the database workload, and monitor the metrics in your dashboard as well.

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Aggregate Specific Metrics for Your Application

No one knows the breaking points of your application better than you. Going beyond the default metrics, you customize statistical analysis and graphs to identify the critical components of your application in preparation for the stress test.

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Create Custom Alarms

From the custom graphs, you will create alarms – based on threshold, composite states, and anomaly detection – to alert you of any part of the application or systems running outside of normal operating parameters.

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Monitor Alarms and Take Action

You can see that the aggregated CPU utilization shows spikes, but you are not particularly sure what the issue is. This is a good general indicator, but it’s important to also monitor for more specific issues to proactively avert systemic problems.

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On average, you retain 75% more of your learning if you get time for practice.

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