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Which of the below mentioned metrics will help the user identify the total number of…?

A user has enabled detailed CloudWatch metric monitoring on an Auto Scaling group. Which of
the below
mentioned metrics will help the user identify the total number of instances in an Auto Scaling
group cluding pending, terminating and running instances?

A.
GroupTotalInstances

B.
GroupSumInstances

C.
It is not possible to get a count of all the three metrics together. The user has to find the
individual
number of running, terminating and pending instances and sum it

D.
GroupInstancesCount

Explanation:
CloudWatch is used to monitor AWS as well as the custom services. For Auto Scaling,
CloudWatch provides various metrics to get the group information, such as the Number of
Pending, Running or Terminating instances at any moment. If the user wants to get the total
number of Running, Pending and Terminating instances at any moment, he can use the
GroupTotalInstances metric.