Ops World 1 · Watchtower · Stage 1

Measure It

Kestrel's sorting fleet runs out of memory at the cutoff and nobody sees it. Give every requirement a source at the lowest monthly bill.

  • EC2 basic and detailed monitoring
  • CloudWatch agent
  • Embedded metric format
  • High-resolution metrics
  • Container Insights
  • Managed Service for Prometheus
Domain
Operations and delivery
World
Ops World 1: Watchtower (Associate)
Game type
Solution board: Drop services into each row's slots, then run records through them.
Time
About 15 minutes on a first attempt (estimated)
Article
Exam guides
  • SOA-C03Skill 1.1.1: Use AWS services (for example, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus) to configure monitoring and logging for workloads (for example, serverless, compute, AI); Skill 1.1.2: Configure and manage the CloudWatch agent to collect metrics and logs from EC2 instances, Amazon ECS clusters, or Amazon EKS clusters; Skill 1.3.1: Optimize compute resources and remediate performance problems by using performance metrics, resource tags, and AWS tools
  • DVA-C02Skill 4.1.4: Implement custom metrics (for example, Amazon CloudWatch embedded metric format [EMF]); Skill 4.2.3: Implement code that emits custom metrics
  • DOP-C02Task 4.1: Configure the collection, aggregation, and storage of logs and metrics; Task 4.3: Automate monitoring and event management of complex environments