AWS: Monitoring, Logging, and Remediation (2021)
1h 40mIntermediate2021-07-30
Authors

Shyam Raj
Technical Instructor, Network and Cloud Guru
Course details
As organizations increasingly move their workloads to the AWS cloud to take advantage of its speed, elasticity, and flexible pricing, it is more important than ever to continuously monitor your applications and workloads, and react to changes, to maintain a fault-tolerant and highly available ecosystem. In this course, Shyam Raj provides system administrators with a look at how to successfully monitor resources and applications and how to remediate problems that may arise. Shyam includes heavy coverage of AWS monitoring services, including CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and AWS Config. He explains how to navigate the dashboards of these services to view metrics, monitor performance, and configure resource limits. This course can also be used to prep for the corresponding domain of the AWS Certified SysOps Admin exam.
Skills covered
Software AdministrationServer AdministrationAmazon Web Services (AWS)AmazonCloud ServicesNetwork AdministrationCloud PlatformsNetwork and System AdministrationCloud ComputingDeep Dive (X:Y)
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Monitoring, logging, and remediation in AWS
- 02 - What you should know
1. AWS CloudWatch and CloudTrail
- 03 - Review monitoring concepts
- 04 - Introduction to CloudWatch
- 05 - Create a CloudWatch alarm
- 06 - CloudWatch Logs
- 07 - CloudWatch Logs Insights
- 08 - CloudWatch agent
- 09 - Dashboards
- 10 - CloudTrail Logs
2. Configure Notifications
- 11 - Configure Amazon SNS notifications
- 12 - Using Service Quotas
- 13 - Using AWS Health events
3. AWS Config
- 14 - Introduction to AWS Config
- 15 - Setting up AWS Config
- 16 - AWS Config managed rules
4. Taking Action
- 17 - Introduction to Amazon EventBridge
- 18 - Configure Amazon EventBridge
- 19 - Lambda in response to CloudWatch alarms
- 20 - Understand AWS Systems Manager
- 21 - Remediate using AWS Systems Manager
Conclusion
- 22 - Next steps with AWS
Related courses
- AWS: Monitoring, Logging, and Remediation
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional (DOP-C02) Cert Prep
- Monitoring AWS with CloudWatch
- AWS Certified Security - Specialty (SCS-C02) Cert Prep
- AWS for DevOps: Monitoring, Metrics, and Logging
- AWS Certified Security - Specialty (SCS-C03) Cert Prep
- AWS Certified Security - Specialty (SCS-C02) Cert Prep: 2 Security Logging and Monitoring
- AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty (MLS-C01) Cert Prep: 4 Machine Learning Implementation and Operations
Related learn paths
- Develop Your AWS Skills
- Prepare for the AWS SysOps Administrator - Associate (SOA-C02) Exam
- Become an IT Security Specialist
- Become an AWS Data and DevOps Specialist
- Prepare for the AWS DevOps Engineer - Professional (DOP-C01) Exam
- Prepare for the AWS Certified Security - Specialty (SCS-C02) Certification
- Prepare for the AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty (ANS-C01) Certification
- Prepare for the AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty (MLS-C01) Exam