Default vs custom metrics in AWS - Interactive Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to specify the AWS service that provides default metrics.

AWS

service = "[1]"

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ACloudWatch

BS3

CEC2

DLambda

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Common Mistakes

Choosing a compute or storage service instead of the monitoring service.

AWS CloudWatch provides default metrics for AWS services automatically.

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medium

Complete the code to create a custom metric namespace in AWS CloudWatch.

AWS

cloudwatch.put_metric_data(Namespace='[1]', MetricData=metric_data)

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AAWS/EC2

BAWS/S3

CCustomNamespace

DAWS/Lambda

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Common Mistakes

Using default AWS namespaces for custom metrics.

Custom metrics require a unique namespace different from AWS default namespaces.

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hard

Fix the error in the code to correctly publish a custom metric value.

AWS

cloudwatch.put_metric_data(Namespace='CustomMetrics', MetricData=[{'MetricName': 'PageViews', 'Value': [1]])

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A100

B'one hundred'

C"100"

D'100'

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Common Mistakes

Passing the metric value as a string instead of a number.

The 'Value' field must be a number, not a string, to correctly publish a metric.

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hard

Fill both blanks to filter default metrics for EC2 instances with a specific tag.

AWS

metrics = cloudwatch.list_metrics(Namespace='[1]', Dimensions=[{'Name': '[2]', 'Value': 'Environment'}])

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AAWS/EC2

BAWS/S3

CInstanceId

DBucketName

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Common Mistakes

Using wrong namespaces or dimension names for EC2 metrics.

Default EC2 metrics use the 'AWS/EC2' namespace and are filtered by 'InstanceId' dimension.

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hard

Fill all three blanks to create a custom metric with a dimension and unit.

AWS

cloudwatch.put_metric_data(Namespace='[1]', MetricData=[{'MetricName': '[2]', 'Dimensions': [{'Name': '[3]', 'Value': 'Server1'}], 'Value': 75, 'Unit': 'Percent'}])

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ACustomAppMetrics

BCPUUtilization

CInstanceType

DAWS/EC2

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Common Mistakes

Using AWS default namespaces for custom metrics.

Using incorrect dimension names.

Custom metrics use a custom namespace, a metric name, and a dimension name to specify the metric context.