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Can You Configure a Resilient Website That Uses Monitoring and Automatic Remediation?

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Part of AWS Monitoring, Logging, and Remediation SOA.1 Topic: AWS

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What you'll do

In this lab, you will build a web server that is monitored for memory usage and internal server errors.

  1. Create and secure a new Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2) instance that runs as a web server
  2. Connect to the instance by using EC2 Instance Connect
  3. Configure the Amazon CloudWatch logs agent on the web server to monitor memory usage and HTTP access logs
  4. Use the custom memory metric to create a CloudWatch alarm that will trigger a restart of the instance
  5. Configure a log filter for internal server errors
  6. Create a CloudWatch alarm by using a custom log metric

Note: Once you begin the lab, you will not be able to pause, save, or exit and then return to your lab Please ensure that you have set aside enough time to complete the lab before you start.

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