AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer Associate SOA-C03 Practice Question
An operations team needs detailed memory utilization and disk space metrics from a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances running Amazon Linux 2. The metrics must appear in Amazon CloudWatch with 1-minute granularity alongside existing instance metrics. The solution should require minimal custom code and follow the principle of least privilege. Which action should the team take to meet these requirements?
Enable CloudTrail management events and create CloudWatch metric filters that publish memory and disk usage to CloudWatch.
Turn on AWS Systems Manager Inventory for the fleet; it will send memory and disk utilization metrics to CloudWatch every minute.
Install and configure the unified CloudWatch agent on each instance with an IAM role that grants only cloudwatch:PutMetricData and logs:PutLogEvents permissions.
Enable EC2 detailed monitoring, which automatically adds memory and disk space metrics to CloudWatch every minute.
CloudWatch detailed monitoring only increases the frequency of the default EC2 metrics, which do not include memory or disk space. CloudTrail records API calls, not operating-system metrics, and CloudWatch metric filters cannot create new metrics for memory or disk usage without the data first being published. Systems Manager Inventory gathers software and configuration data but does not publish real-time utilization metrics. Installing and configuring the unified CloudWatch agent on each instance enables the collection of additional system-level metrics such as memory and disk usage. The agent publishes these metrics to CloudWatch at the specified 1-minute interval, and it needs only the permissions to put metrics and log events, satisfying the principle of least privilege.
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