AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional DOP-C02 — Topic 1 Question 426

Question

A company is developing a web application that runs on Amazon EC2 Linux instances. The application requires monitoring of custom performance metrics. The company must collect metrics for API response times and database query latency across multiple instances. Which solution will generate the custom metrics with the LEAST operational overhead?

Accepted Answer

Correct answer: A. The correct answer is A. Option A: Install the Amazon CloudWatch agent on the instances. Configure the agent to collect the custom metrics. Instrument the application to send the metrics to the agent. Amazon CloudWatch collects metrics, logs and alarms to monitor and react to operational health. AWS Config tracks resource configuration changes and evaluates compliance.

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional DOP-C02 — Question 426