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CloudWatch Agent

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The CloudWatch Agent is a software that can be installed on your instances to collect system-level metrics and logs. This agent can be used on both EC2 instances and on-premises servers. It allows for more detailed monitoring and extends CloudWatch's functionality by collecting additional metrics s…

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Question 1

A company wants to troubleshoot and resolve issues with its application quickly. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances, and they need centralized logs for fast analysis. What approach should they use?

Correct Answer: Configure the CloudWatch Agent to send logs directly to CloudWatch Logs

Configuring the CloudWatch Agent to send logs directly to CloudWatch Logs helps the company with centralized log aggregation and faster analysis. The other options do not directly help with centralized log aggregation.

Question 2

Your company is using custom metrics for application performance monitoring on EC2 instances. They want to employ a high-resolution approach with a minimum delay. What solution would you recommend?

Correct Answer: Enable high-resolution metrics in the CloudWatch Agent

High-resolution metrics collected via CloudWatch Agent provide better granularity, allowing the monitoring of systems and applications in near-real-time. This is not achieved with the other options.

Question 3

Your company needs to centralize operating system and application logs, as well as basic host metrics, from hundreds of Linux and Windows servers in an on-premises data center into Amazon CloudWatch for dashboards and alarms. The solution should use a supported, secure, push-based method that sends data directly to CloudWatch without building custom ingestion services. What is the most appropriate approach?

Correct Answer: Install the CloudWatch Agent on on-premises servers

Installing the CloudWatch Agent on the on-premises servers is the correct approach because it is an AWS-supported, secure, push-based method to send both operating system/application logs to CloudWatch Logs and host-level metrics (CPU, memory, disk, network) to CloudWatch Metrics. The agent supports Windows and Linux, can run on on-premises hosts using IAM credentials or AWS Systems Manager hybrid activations, and handles buffering, retries, and encryption in transit. Amazon S3 bucket notifications are unrelated to collecting logs from servers to CloudWatch. AWS Config records configuration changes of AWS resources, not server logs or metrics from on-premises machines. Amazon API Gateway would require building a custom ingestion API and does not provide a native or recommended path to deliver host logs/metrics to CloudWatch, adding unnecessary complexity.

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