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Question #: 542
Topic #: 1

A company has a web application that runs both on-premises and on Amazon EC2 instances. Over time, both the on-premises servers and EC2 instances begin crashing. A SysOps Administrator suspects a memory leak in the application and wants a unified method to monitor memory utilization over time.
How can the Administrator track both the EC2 memory utilization and on-premises server memory utilization over time?

A. Write a script or use a third-party application to report memory utilization for both EC2 instances and on-premises servers.
B. Use Amazon CloudWatch agent for both Amazon EC2 instances and on-premises servers to report MemoryUtilization metrics to CloudWatch and set a CloudWatch alarm for notifications.
C. Use CloudWatch agent for Amazon EC2 instances to report memory utilization to CloudWatch, and set CloudWatch alarms for notifications. Use a third-party application for the on-premises servers.
D. Configure a load balancer to route traffic to both on-premises servers and EC2 instances, then use CloudWatch as the unified view of the metrics for the load balancer.

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳️

by m0h3n at June 12, 2021, 8:16 a.m.

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Cyril_the_Squirl

9 months, 3 weeks ago

B is correct. Cloudwatch agent can be installed on EC2 and on-prem. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/Install-CloudWatch-Agent.html

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m0h3n

10 months, 2 weeks ago

Ans:B Cloudwatch agent can sent custom metrics from both EC2 and on premise servers.

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