The exam covers different domains of knowledge and the first one focuses on testing your understanding of how to monitor your environment and manage costs in your environment. This section will look at your ability to understand the CloudWatch monitoring environment and what kinds of metrics and logs it can store and display in the management console. There are several crucial aspects to remember about CloudWatch:
- By default, there's no cost associated with the metrics unless you enable detailed monitoring.
- You can deliver any kind of custom metrics to CloudWatch with detailed monitoring down to one second.
- CloudWatch doesn't have access to the EC2 operating system, meaning that any metrics or logs that can't be collected by the hypervisor require the delivery of custom metrics or the use of the CloudWatch agent to stream logs...