Domain 1: Monitoring, Logging, and Remediation (20% of the exam content) - AWS Certification

Domain 1: Monitoring, Logging, and Remediation (20% of the exam content)

This domain accounts for 20% of the exam content.

Task 1.1: Implement metrics, alarms, and filters by using monitoring and logging services

  • Identify, collect, analyze, and export logs (for example, Amazon CloudWatch Logs, CloudWatch Logs Insights, CloudTrail logs).

  • Collect metrics and logs by using the CloudWatch agent.

  • Create CloudWatch alarms.

  • Create metric filters.

  • Create CloudWatch dashboards.

  • Configure notifications (for example, Amazon Simple Notification Service [Amazon SNS], Service Quotas, CloudWatch alarms, Health events).

Task 1.2: Remediate issues based on monitoring and availability metrics

  • Troubleshoot or take corrective actions based on notifications and alarms.

  • Configure Amazon EventBridge rules to invoke actions.

  • Use Systems Manager Automation runbooks to take action based on Config rules.