CloudWatch

AWS DVA-C02 Drill: Lambda Tracing - X-Ray vs. CloudWatch Logs

13 December 2025·1191 words·6 mins

Certification Drills AWS DVA-C02 Lambda X-Ray CloudWatch Distributed Tracing

Analyzing Lambda troubleshooting scenarios to identify the correct tracing implementation strategy for developers.

AWS DVA-C02 Drill: Lambda Performance Monitoring - X-Ray Service Maps vs. CloudWatch Metrics

13 December 2025·1123 words·6 mins

Certification Drills AWS DVA-C02 AWS Lambda AWS X-Ray CloudWatch Performance Monitoring Distributed Tracing

Analyzing the Lambda performance monitoring scenario to identify the correct implementation strategy for measuring service-to-service latency.

AWS DVA-C02 Drill: Distributed Tracing - X-Ray vs. CloudWatch for Microservices Monitoring

13 December 2025·1259 words·6 mins

Certification Drills AWS DVA-C02 AWS X-Ray Distributed Tracing Microservices CloudWatch X-Ray SDK

Analyzing the distributed tracing scenario to identify the correct implementation strategy for monitoring microservices communication on EC2 instances.

AWS SOA-C02 Drill: Automated Instance Shutdown - Operational Efficiency at Scale

20 June 2025·796 words·4 mins

Certification Drills AWS SOA-C02 EC2 CloudWatch Systems Manager Operational Efficiency

Analyzing the automated shutdown scenario to identify the most operationally efficient method for EC2 CPU utilization monitoring.

AWS DVA-C02 Drill: Monitoring Application Performance - Efficient Notification with CloudWatch Metrics

20 June 2025·877 words·5 mins

Certification Drills AWS DVA-C02 CloudWatch Custom Metrics SNS

Analyzing the implementation of time-based performance alerts in an AWS-hosted application to identify the correct strategy.

AWS SOA-C02 Drill: EC2 Performance Optimization - Efficient Scaling for Responsiveness

15 June 2025·717 words·4 mins

Certification Drills AWS SOA-C02 EC2 Auto Scaling CloudWatch

Analyzing an EC2 CPU utilization scenario to identify the most operationally efficient approach to improve application responsiveness.

AWS DVA-C02 Drill: Handling API Throttling - Exponential Backoff Best Practice

15 June 2025·692 words·4 mins

Certification Drills AWS DVA-C02 CloudWatch API Throttling

Analyzing the CloudWatch API throttling scenario to identify the correct resilient retry strategy.

AWS DVA-C02 Drill: Collecting Custom Metrics - CloudWatch Agent vs X-Ray Agent

15 June 2025·879 words·5 mins

Certification Drills AWS DVA-C02 CloudWatch CloudWatch Agent X-Ray Metrics Collection

Analyzing the best approach for gathering detailed EC2 and custom app metrics in an auto-scaled environment.

AWS DVA-C02 Drill: Centralized Logging - Minimum Application Changes

15 June 2025·739 words·4 mins

Certification Drills AWS DVA-C02 CloudWatch Logging

Analyzing centralized logging techniques to identify the correct implementation strategy with minimal app modifications.

AWS SOA-C02 Drill: Auto Scaling Metrics - Choosing the Right Signal for User-Based Scaling

1 June 2025·830 words·4 mins

Certification Drills AWS SOA-C02 EC2 Auto Scaling CloudWatch

Analyzing Auto Scaling metric choices to meet application scaling based on user connections.

AWS DVA-C02 Drill: Amazon SNS Monitoring - Tracing vs. Metrics for Latency and Rate

1 June 2025·674 words·4 mins

Certification Drills AWS DVA-C02 SNS Monitoring X-Ray CloudWatch

Analyzing SNS FIFO topic notification rate and latency monitoring to identify the correct implementation strategy.

AWS SOA-C02 Drill: CloudWatch Alarms - Detecting Missing Data Events with Metric Math

15 May 2025·1710 words·9 mins

Certification Drills AWS SOA-C02 CloudWatch Lambda S3 Events SNS Monitoring SRE

Analyzing S3 event notification monitoring strategies to identify the most operationally efficient method for detecting missing data ingestion events.

AWS DVA-C02 Drill: Lambda Monitoring - Identifying Latency Causes Without Code Changes

10 May 2025·739 words·4 mins

Certification Drills AWS DVA-C02 Lambda X-Ray CloudWatch

Analyzing a Lambda service integration scenario to identify the correct monitoring strategy without code modification.

AWS DVA-C02 Drill: CloudWatch Alarms - Monitoring EC2 CPU Utilization

25 April 2025·797 words·4 mins

Certification Drills AWS DVA-C02 CloudWatch EC2 SNS CPUUtilization

Analyzing the monitoring and alerting strategy for EC2 CPU utilization in a high-traffic event scenario.

AWS SOA-C02 Drill: Process-Level Monitoring - Capturing CPU Spikes Efficiently

15 April 2025·746 words·4 mins

Certification Drills AWS SOA-C02 CloudWatch EC2 Procstat Metric

Analyzing the best approach to collect high-resolution process CPU utilization data on EC2 Linux instances during spikes.

AWS DVA-C02 Drill: CloudWatch Custom Metrics - High-Resolution Alarms for Fast Notifications

15 April 2025·629 words·3 mins

Certification Drills AWS DVA-C02 CloudWatch SNS High-Resolution Alarms

Analyzing how to achieve sub-minute alerting using custom CloudWatch metrics in a developer-centric monitoring scenario.

AWS SOA-C02 Drill: CloudWatch Alarms - Dynamic Thresholds for Unknown Usage Patterns

15 March 2025·776 words·4 mins

Certification Drills AWS SOA-C02 CloudWatch Alarms Monitoring

Analyzing how to implement CloudWatch alarms when usage patterns and growth are unknown.

AWS SOA-C02 Drill: Automated EC2 Recovery - Preserving IP and Notifications

15 March 2025·917 words·5 mins

Certification Drills AWS SOA-C02 EC2 CloudWatch SNS Auto Scaling

Analyzing an automated EC2 recovery scenario to identify the correct approach for preserving private and Elastic IPs while sending email notifications.

AWS DVA-C02 Drill: Monitoring Lambda Payment API Failures - Real-Time Error Alerts

15 March 2025·886 words·5 mins

Certification Drills AWS DVA-C02 Lambda CloudWatch SNS Custom Metrics Monitoring

Analyzing a serverless payment API error monitoring scenario to identify the best way to implement near real-time error rate notifications.

AWS DVA-C02 Drill: CloudWatch Custom Metrics - Best Practices for Embedded Metric Format

15 March 2025·799 words·4 mins

Certification Drills AWS DVA-C02 CloudWatch Embedded Metric Format

Analyzing the best approach to create custom CloudWatch metrics from Lambda function logs using embedded metric formats.