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Solution: Cloudwatch

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Solution: Cloudwatch

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(upbeat music) - [Instructor] From the CloudWatch dashboard, I clicked on all metrics. And under EC2, I clicked on view automatic dashboard. I scrolled down and underneath the CPU utilization metric, I found a tile called StatusCheckFailed: Sum. I rolled over the label from my instance and clicked create alarm. I set the sum over five minutes to any value greater than zero. Then I clicked Next. For my SNS topic, I chose to select an existing SNS topic, and I selected the topic that I created earlier when I created my other CloudWatch metric. At the bottom, I clicked Next And for alarm name, I called this ec2awsdemostatuscheckalarm. And at the bottom I clicked Next, and at the bottom of the summary screen, I clicked create alarm. After several minutes, I clicked the refresh button to make sure that my new alarm was in an okay state.

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