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A Cloud Guru

Visualize Metrics for Tagged Resources on Amazon CloudWatch

In this lab you will be taking on the role of a cloud operations expert that is tasked with finding a way to visualize CPU Utilization for EC2 instances in your AWS account. Your company needs a dashboard where they can track average CPU Utilization by Environment.

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Level

Beginner

Duration

45m

Published

Feb 28, 2024

Challenge

Create a CloudWatch Dashboard

Navigate to the CloudWatch service and create a dashboard named my-ec2-dashboard.
Challenge

Select EC2 CPU Utilization in Metrics Explorer

Navigate to Metrics explorer to set filters to view CPUUtilization.
Challenge

Filter the Aggregated Metrics by Environment Tag and Create One Visual for Each Environment

Filter by the Environment tag and aggregate by Average. Do this for both Prod and Dev. Add each visual to your created dashboard.

Author

A Cloud Guru

The Cloud Content team comprises subject matter experts hyper focused on services offered by the leading cloud vendors (AWS, GCP, and Azure), as well as cloud-related technologies such as Linux and DevOps. The team is thrilled to share their knowledge to help you build modern tech solutions from the ground up, secure and optimize your environments, and so much more!

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