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Monitoring and troubleshooting objectives

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Monitoring and troubleshooting objectives

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- [Instructor] Monitoring and Troubleshooting. While this is the second smallest domain in this exam, it's a very important one in your career as a cloud developer. Take, for example, writing code that can be monitored. This boils down to making sure your application generates enough logs with meaningful data. If we can't see what's going on with your application, we can't diagnose or improve it. When your application generates proper log files, you can use the CloudWatch logs agent to send this data to CloudWatch and generate metrics, alarms, and graphic dashboards, and notifications, all starting from your code generating useful descriptic log files. Perform root cause analysis on faults found in testing or production. Root cause analysis in AWS is the ability to jump from one service to the next, tracking down one problem, which in the end will lead to a permanent solution rather than a workaround. As we move along,…

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