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Monitoring and Alerting with AWS - Level 2

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COURSE
Advanced
1h 4m
How to Implement & Enable Logging Across AWS Services (Part 1 of 2)
In this lesson, you'll learn how to implement logging and monitoring across AWS Services including Amazon CloudWatch, CloudWatch Monitoring Agent, AWS CloudTrail Logs, and Amazon S3 Access Logs.
COURSE
Advanced
1h 4m
How to Implement & Enable Logging Across AWS Services (Part 2 of 2)
In this lesson, you'll learn how to implement logging and monitoring across AWS Services including Amazon CloudWatch, CloudWatch Monitoring Agent, AWS CloudTrail Logs, and Amazon S3 Access Logs.
HANDS-ON LAB
Intermediate
Up to 2h 30m
Monitor Like a DevOps Pro: Build A Log Aggregation System in AWS
Learn how to monitor AWS Cloud systems by building a log aggregation system using Logstash, Kibana, and the Amazon OpenSearch Service.
HANDS-ON LAB
Beginner
Up to 45m
Amazon VPC Flow Logs Challenge
Put your Amazon VPC, Amazon CloudWatch, and Amazon S3 skills to test in this hands-on lab challenge.

AWS provides a comprehensive set of tools and services for monitoring and alerting purposes. Knowing where to look for extra information in times of need is an important skill when operating in the AWS cloud. Being able to monitor data provides a number of key benefits to your organization, such as compliance, incident detection and resolution, trend analysis and much more! Collating data and statistics about your solutions running within AWS also provides the ability to optimize performance and stability. In this course you'll learn through a mixture of video lessons and hands-on labs, the following AWS services:

  • Amazon CloudWatch - CloudWatch Monitoring Agent
  • AWS CloudTrail Logs
  • Monitoring CloudTrail Logs with CloudWatch Metric Filters
  • Amazon S3 Access Logs
  • Amazon CloudFront Access Logs
  • VPC Flow Logs
  • AWS Config Configuration History 
  • Filtering and searching data using Amazon Athena

The content in this course will teach you Monitoring and Alerting with AWS to a level 2 standard. 

Learning Objectives

  • Be able to implement monitoring and alerting services in AWS
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Jeremy is a Content Lead Architect and DevOps SME here at Cloud Academy where he specializes in developing DevOps technical training documentation.

He has a strong background in software engineering, and has been coding with various languages, frameworks, and systems for the past 25+ years. In recent times, Jeremy has been focused on DevOps, Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), Security, Kubernetes, and Machine Learning.

Jeremy holds professional certifications for AWS, Azure, GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes (CKA, CKAD, CKS).