AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (legacy) — Question 762

An organization has configured the custom metric upload with CloudWatch. The organization has given permission to its employees to upload data using CLI as well SDK. How can the user track the calls made to CloudWatch?

Answer options

• A. The user can enable logging with CloudWatch which logs all the activities
• B. Use CloudTrail to monitor the API calls
• C. Create an IAM user and allow each user to log the data using the S3 bucket
• D. Enable detailed monitoring with CloudWatch

Correct answer: B

Explanation

AWS CloudTrail is designed to capture and log API calls made to AWS services, including CloudWatch, whether they originate from the CLI, SDK, or Management Console. CloudWatch itself does not log API call history natively, and detailed monitoring is used for higher-frequency EC2 metrics rather than tracking API requests.