Amazon CloudWatch is a service from AWS that makes monitoring and observing your cloud infrastructure easy. Using Amazon CloudWatch you can:

• Create dashboards
• Create custom metrics
• Create alarms to alert you

Creating and configuring a metric filter and alarm is a task that people aiming to get AWS certified should be able to accomplish.

This lab assumes that you understand the features and concepts of Amazon CloudWatch and Log Groups. If you are unfamiliar with these topics, Cloud Academy recommends completing the materials mentioned in the prerequisites section before attempting this challenge.

This hands-on lab challenge will test your practical ability to build out a solution in a production-like AWS environment. You will be presented with a task and a set of requirements that you must fulfill to pass the challenge.

This is a real environment, which means you can prove your knowledge in an applied situation, leaving behind multiple choice questions for a dynamic performance-based exam situation.

Updates

September 13th, 2022 - Resolved validation check issue

• Monitoring AWS CloudTrail Events with Amazon CloudWatch
• How to Implement & Enable Logging Across AWS Services (Part 1 of 2)
• Filtering Amazon CloudWatch Log Events

• Candidates for the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate certification
• DevOps Engineers
• Cloud Architects

• Amazon CloudWatch Logs
• Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)