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Monitoring dashboard
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CAREER PROJECT · Intermediate · 1 weekend
AWS CloudWatch Monitoring Dashboard
Instrument an AWS workload with logs, metrics, dashboards, alarms and SNS notifications so failures become visible.
CloudWatchLogsMetricsAlarmsSNSSystem health
DEFINITION OF DONE
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Alarm demo
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SNS notification
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Failure drill
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Operations runbook
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RESUME / PORTFOLIO FRAMING
Describe what you actually did.
Instrumented an AWS workload with CloudWatch logs, metrics, dashboards and alerting to improve operational visibility.
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STRETCH GOALS
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Composite alarms
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Log Insights queries
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SLO dashboard
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