You are the IT administrator for your company.
The company has a set of servers sitting on AWS and a set of them sitting on their on-premises locations.
They want to monitor the system-level metrics for both sets of servers with a unified dashboard for monitoring.
Which of the following can help to achieve this? (Select TWO)
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A. B. C. D.Answer - A and C.
The AWS Documentation mentions the following.
The unified CloudWatch agent enables you to do the following.
· Collect more system-level metrics from Amazon EC2 instances, including in-guest metrics, in addition to the metrics listed in Amazon EC2 Metrics and Dimensions.
The additional metrics are listed in Metrics Collected by the CloudWatch Agent.
· Collect system-level metrics from on-premises servers.
These can include servers in a hybrid environment as well as servers not managed by AWS.
· Collect logs from Amazon EC2 instances and on-premises servers, running either Linux or Windows Server.
Option B is incorrect since you don't need to migrate the servers since the Cloudwatch agent can monitor them.
Option D is incorrect since this is not the monitoring service but the API monitoring service.
For more information on the CloudWatch agent, please refer to the below URL-
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/Install-CloudWatch-Agent.htmlThe company wants to monitor the system-level metrics for both on-premises and AWS servers with a unified dashboard for monitoring. To achieve this, we can take the following steps:
The CloudWatch agent is a lightweight software component that can be installed on both on-premises and EC2 instances to collect system-level metrics such as CPU utilization, memory usage, and disk I/O. After installing the agent, the metrics are sent to CloudWatch, where they can be viewed and analyzed.
CloudWatch Metrics is a fully managed service that collects and monitors metrics from various AWS resources such as EC2 instances, DynamoDB tables, and RDS instances. We can create a dashboard in CloudWatch that displays metrics from both on-premises and AWS servers.
Therefore, the correct answers are A and C.
Migrating on-premises servers to AWS (option B) is not necessary to achieve the goal of monitoring system-level metrics for both sets of servers. Similarly, setting up a metrics dashboard in CloudTrail (option D) is not possible as CloudTrail is a service that records API calls made in the AWS environment, not a monitoring service like CloudWatch.