CloudWatch dashboards in AWS - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to create a CloudWatch dashboard with a specified name.

AWS

aws cloudwatch put-dashboard --dashboard-name [1] --dashboard-body file://dashboard.json

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AMyDashboard

BDashboard1

CCloudWatchDash

DTestDashboard

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Common Mistakes

Using a file path instead of a simple name for the dashboard name.

Including spaces in the dashboard name without quotes.

The --dashboard-name parameter specifies the name of the dashboard to create or update. Here, Dashboard1 is used as the example name.

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medium

Complete the code to specify the dashboard body JSON file for the CloudWatch dashboard.

AWS

aws cloudwatch put-dashboard --dashboard-name Dashboard1 --dashboard-body [1]

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Afile://dashboard.json

Bdashboard.json

C"{\"widgets\":[]}"

Ddashboard-body.json

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Common Mistakes

Omitting the file:// prefix when specifying a file.

Passing just the filename without quotes or prefix.

The --dashboard-body parameter expects a JSON string or a file reference. Using file://dashboard.json tells AWS CLI to read the JSON content from the file.

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hard

Fix the error in the dashboard JSON snippet by completing the missing widget type.

AWS

{
  "widgets": [
    {
      "type": "[1]",
      "x": 0,
      "y": 0,
      "width": 6,
      "height": 6,
      "properties": {
        "metrics": [["AWS/EC2", "CPUUtilization", "InstanceId", "i-1234567890abcdef0"]],
        "period": 300,
        "stat": "Average",
        "region": "us-east-1",
        "title": "EC2 CPU"
      }
    }
  ]
}

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Atext

Balarm

Clog

Dmetric

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Common Mistakes

Using 'text' instead of 'metric' for a graph widget.

Using 'log' which is not a valid widget type.

The widget type for displaying metrics in a CloudWatch dashboard is metric. This tells CloudWatch to show a graph of the specified metric.

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hard

Fill both blanks to complete the widget properties for a CloudWatch dashboard showing average CPU utilization.

AWS

{
  "widgets": [
    {
      "type": "metric",
      "x": 0,
      "y": 0,
      "width": [1],
      "height": [2],
      "properties": {
        "metrics": [["AWS/EC2", "CPUUtilization"]],
        "period": 300,
        "stat": "Average",
        "region": "us-west-2",
        "title": "CPU Usage"
      }
    }
  ]
}

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A6

B12

C8

D4

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Common Mistakes

Using zero or negative numbers for width or height.

Swapping width and height values.

The widget width and height define its size on the dashboard grid. Common sizes are 6 or 12 units wide and tall. Here, width is 6 and height is 12 for a taller graph.

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hard

Fill all three blanks to complete the JSON snippet for a CloudWatch dashboard widget showing average network in bytes for an EC2 instance.

AWS

{
  "widgets": [
    {
      "type": "[1]",
      "x": 0,
      "y": 0,
      "width": 6,
      "height": 6,
      "properties": {
        "metrics": [["AWS/EC2", "[2]", "InstanceId", "[3]"]],
        "period": 300,
        "stat": "Average",
        "region": "us-east-2",
        "title": "Network In"
      }
    }
  ]
}

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Ametric

BNetworkIn

Ci-0abcdef1234567890

Dtext

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Common Mistakes

Using 'text' as widget type instead of 'metric'.

Using incorrect metric names or instance IDs.

The widget type is metric to show a graph. The metric name is NetworkIn for incoming network bytes. The instance ID is a sample EC2 instance ID.