From the course: Monitoring AWS with CloudWatch (2020)

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Solution: Create CloudWatch alarms

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Solution: Create CloudWatch alarms

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(upbeat music) - [Instructor] To solve this challenge, first, I started by creating a new alarm from a CloudWatch alarms homepage. Next, I selected the metric. For the metric namespace, I went into API gateway namespace. and then I filtered the APIs by name, and in the metrics selection, I selected the count metric which gives me the total count of requests to my API. Next, on the metrics statistic configuration, I changed the statistic from average to sum, and changed the period from five minutes to one minute. On the conditions configuration, I left the threshold type as static, and for a threshold value, I use the value 20. Next, on the alarm state trigger, I use the in alarm state and created a new SNS topic. I named SNS topic InAlarmChallengeTest, and then provided my email address so I could get notifications. And finally, proceeded to create the topic. Next, I added another notification to my alarm. For the alarm…

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