Question

You are the architect of a custom application running inside your corporate data center.

The application runs with some unresolved bugs that produce a lot of data inside custom log files generating time-consuming activities for the operation team responsible for analyzing them. You want to move the application to AWS using EC2 instances.

At the same time, you want to take the opportunity to improve logging and monitoring capabilities, but without touching the application code. What AWS service should you use to satisfy the requirement?

A. AWS Kinesis Data Streams

B. AWS CloudTrail

C. AWS CloudWatch Logs

D. AWS Application Logs

Answer 1

Answer: C.

Option A is INCORRECT because in order to feed a Data Streams from custom logs you have to change the application code.

AWS documentation describes this with the following sentence: “To put data into the stream, you must specify the name of the stream, a partition key, and the data blob to be added to the stream.”

Option B is INCORRECT because it is not related to the scenario and custom log files.

Option C is CORRECT because AWS CloudWatch Logs has the capability to reuse existing application logs increasing efficiency in operation with the ability to generate on them metrics, alerts and analytics with AWS CloudWatch Logs Insight.