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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
Clock icon Beginner
Duration
Clock icon 45m
Published
Clock icon Feb 28, 2024

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Table of Contents

  1. Challenge

    Create a CloudWatch Dashboard

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

  2. Challenge

    Select EC2 CPU Utilization in Metrics Explorer

    Navigate to Metrics explorer to set filters to view CPUUtilization.

  3. 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.

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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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