Ops World 1 · Watchtower · Stage 6

Watch Desk

Tickets from the watchtower. The metric, the history, the agent's log or the group's settings names the cause before you touch anything.

Domain: Operations and delivery
World: Ops World 1: Watchtower (Associate)
Game type: Evidence desk: Each ticket is the reporter's words: find its cause in the evidence.
Time: About 30 minutes on a first attempt (estimated)
Exam guides: SOA-C03Skill 1.1.2: Configure and manage the CloudWatch agent to collect metrics and logs from EC2 instances, Amazon ECS clusters, or Amazon EKS clusters; Skill 1.1.3: Configure, identify, and troubleshoot CloudWatch alarms that can invoke AWS services directly or through Amazon EventBridge (for example, by creating composite alarms and identifying their invokable actions); Skill 5.3.5: Configure and analyze CloudWatch network monitoring services
DVA-C02Skill 4.1.2: Interpret application metrics, logs, and traces; Skill 4.1.5: Review application health by using dashboards and insights
DOP-C02Task 5.3: Troubleshoot system and application failures