AWS DevOps Engineer Professional DOP-C01 – Question149

A DevOps Engineer must implement monitoring for a workload running on Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS MySQL. The monitoring must include:

  • Application logs and operating system metrics for the Amazon EC2 instances
  • Database logs and operating system metrics for the Amazon RDS database

Which steps should the Engineer take?

A.
Install an Amazon CloudWatch agent on the EC2 and RDS instances. Configure the agent to send the operating system metrics and application and database logs to CloudWatch.
B. Install an Amazon CloudWatch agent on the EC2 instance, and configure the agent to send the application logs and operating system metrics to CloudWatch. Enable RDS Enhanced Monitoring, and modify the RDS instance to publish database logs to CloudWatch Logs.
C. Install an Amazon CloudWatch Logs agent on the EC2 instance and configure it to send application logs to CloudWatch.
D. Set up scheduled tasks on the EC2 and RDS instances to put operating system metrics and application and database logs into an Amazon S3 bucket. Set up an event on the bucket to invoke an AWS Lambda function to monitor for errors each time an object is put into the bucket.

Correct Answer: B