DOP-C02 Exam Dumps : AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional

Comprehensive & Detailed Explanation (150–250 words):

Container restart failures require detailed observability into pod-level, node-level, and container-level metrics and logs. CloudWatch Container Insights is purpose-built for Kubernetes operational diagnostics and provides granular visibility into CPU, memory, network I/O, disk I/O, container restarts, OOM kills, throttling, pod lifecycle issues, and Kubernetes control plane behaviors.

The CloudWatch Observability add-on deploys Fluent Bit and the CloudWatch Agent directly into the EKS cluster as DaemonSets. These components automatically collect:

Container logs

Pod metrics

Node metrics

Cluster events

OOM errors

CrashLoopBackOff restart cycles

Control plane request anomalies

With this data, the DevOps engineer can easily identify misconfigurations, resource bottlenecks, unhealthy nodes, failing containers, or image pull issues.

Option A (dashboards only) lacks per-container diagnostic data.

Option B (CloudTrail) only logs API calls — not useful for restart debugging.

Option C (CloudTrail Insights) only detects anomalous API usage, not container failures.

Therefore, CloudWatch Container Insights is the correct and AWS-recommended solution for diagnosing container restart failures in EKS.

Running unit tests in the build phase and aborting on failure (OnFailure=ABORT) prevents deployment if tests fail.

AWS CDK assertions module provides programmatic unit tests against synthesized templates (Option D).

The --rollback flag relates to CloudFormation stack rollback, not test gating.

The --require-approval flag controls manual approvals, not test outcomes.

cdk diff checks for changes but is not a unit test and may not catch logical errors.