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A developer has a legacy application that is hosted on-premises. Other applications hosted on AWS depend on the on-premises application for proper functioning.
In case of any application errors, the developer wants to be able to use Amazon CloudWatch to monitor and troubleshoot all applications from one place.
How can the developer accomplish this?

A. Install an AWS SDK on the on-premises server to automatically send logs to CloudWatch.
B. Download the CloudWatch agent to the on-premises server. Configure the agent to use IAM user credentials with permissions for CloudWatch.
C. Upload log files from the on-premises server to Amazon S3 and have CloudWatch read the files.
D. Upload log files from the on-premises server to an Amazon EC2 instance and have the instance forward the logs to CloudWatch.

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳️

by WilsonNF at Aug. 12, 2020, 7:08 p.m.

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WilsonNF

Highly Voted 3 years, 9 months ago

B. Download the CloudWatch agent to the on-premises server. Configure the agent to use IAM user credentials with permissions for CloudWatch. KEY: monitoring on premise = CloudWatch Agent

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RicardoD

Highly Voted 3 years, 8 months ago

B is the answer Install the agent and, create a user and give it permission to it to access cloudwatch functionalities

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Ibrahim24

Most Recent 1 year, 3 months ago

Selected Answer: B

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/install-CloudWatch-Agent-on-premise.html

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rcaliandro

2 years ago

Selected Answer: B

B is the correct answer because for on-prem servers we do need to download and install the CloudWatch agent. It is also need to configure permission to write to CloudWatch report

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pancman

2 years, 4 months ago

Similar question was on the exam today (Feb 2023)

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sichilam

2 years, 5 months ago

The unified CloudWatch agent enables you to do the following: Collect internal system-level metrics from Amazon EC2 instances across operating systems. The metrics can include in-guest metrics, in addition to the metrics for EC2 instances. The additional metrics that can be collected are listed in Metrics collected by the CloudWatch agent. Collect system-level metrics from on-premises servers. These can include servers in a hybrid environment as well as servers not managed by AWS. Retrieve custom metrics from your applications or services using the StatsD and collectd protocols. StatsD is supported on both Linux servers and servers running Windows Server. collectd is supported only on Linux servers. Collect logs from Amazon EC2 instances and on-premises servers, running either Linux or Windows Server.

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