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Category: CloudWatch

  • Quick CloudWatch Metric Alarm

    I’m getting myself back up to speed with All Things AWS so, to get my feet wet so to speak, I spun up an EC2 instance and enabled detailed monitoring. Once the instance was live, I EC2-Connect (no SSH required) and installed the stress module. This allows some artificial stress constraints to be put on…

  • How CloudTrail Enhances AWS Log Management

    How CloudTrail Enhances AWS Log Management

    CloudTrail is useful in logging API events, such as creating a VPC or instance, and also non-API events (such as logging in using the AWS Management Console), both management and data events. By default, management events are captured for 90 days, but if you want to capture data events (like s3 bucket or lambda), or…