# Advanced topics
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The following sections contain more advanced tasks that explain how to customize monitoring using preprocessing and postprocessing scripts, how to build your own container, and how to use Amazon CloudFormation to create a monitoring schedule.

**Topics**
+ [Custom monitoring schedules](model-monitor-custom-monitoring-schedules.md)
+ [Create a Monitoring Schedule for a Real-time Endpoint with an Amazon CloudFormation Custom Resource](model-monitor-cloudformation-monitoring-schedules.md)