Exam AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate SAA-C03 topic 1 question 615 discussion

'Running the Amazon CloudWatch agent in the existing EKS cluster' is called Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/Container-Insights-setup-metrics.html

Use CloudWatch Container Insights to collect, aggregate, and summarize metrics and logs from your containerized applications and microservices. Container Insights is available for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), and Kubernetes platforms on Amazon EC2. Container Insights supports collecting metrics from clusters deployed on AWS Fargate for both Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/ContainerInsights.html "Use CloudWatch Container Insights to collect, aggregate, and summarize metrics and logs from your containerized applications and microservices."

Selected Answer: D https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/ContainerInsights.html

EKS monitoring = Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights

I have worked on it. A is the right answer

https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/features/

The key reasons are: CloudWatch Container Insights automatically collects metrics and logs from containers running in EKS clusters. This provides visibility into resource utilization, application performance, and microservice interactions. The metrics and logs are stored in CloudWatch Logs and CloudWatch metrics for central access. The CloudWatch console allows querying, filtering, and visualizing the metrics and logs in one centralized place.

D Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights facilitates observability for your applications and underlying AWS resources. It helps you set up the best monitors for your application resources to continuously analyze data for signs of problems with your applications.

What Cloudwatch Container Insights is for.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/deploy-container-insights-EKS.html

Cloudwatch monitors applications and provides metrics. Cloudtrail is used for API activities in the account.

Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights is a service that collects, aggregates, and summarizes metrics and logs from containerized applications. It is designed to work with Amazon EKS and Kubernetes.