AWS Cloud Operations Blog
Tag: Amazon CloudWatch
How to get a daily report for your resources configuration changes
AWS allows customers to build, experience, and innovate in their AWS accounts, resulting in dynamic environments. You can manage your resources changes using different controls, such as: Preventive controls with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies Detective controls with AWS Config Rules Preventive and Detective controls with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines […]
Optimize Log Collection with Amazon CloudWatch Agent Log Filter Expressions
The Amazon CloudWatch agent is a software package that autonomously and continuously runs on your servers. You can install and configure the CloudWatch agent to collect system and application logs from Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), on-premises hosts, and containerized applications. The logs collected by the CloudWatch agent are processed and stored in Amazon CloudWatch, […]
Deliver Java JMX statistics to Amazon CloudWatch using the CloudWatch Agent and CollectD
A common problem customers face is alerting when their Java-based workloads experience performance issues, such as heap constraints. In this post, I’ll illustrate how relevant metrics from the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) can be collected and sent to Amazon CloudWatch, where customers can define alerts that fire when workloads are in jeopardy. Overview Let’s consider […]
Analyzing AWS WAF Logs in Amazon CloudWatch Logs
Update April 17 2023 : The Contributor Insights rules provided in this blog post are now natively available in CloudWatch Contributor Insights. This post shows you how to use Amazon CloudWatch features, such as Logs Insights, Contributor Insights, and Metric Filters to analyze AWS Web Application Firewall (AWS WAF) logs, create dashboards, and generate alarms. […]
Viewing Amazon CloudWatch metrics with Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus and Amazon Managed Grafana
Monitoring AWS services comprising of a customer workload with Amazon CloudWatch is important for resiliency of a workload. Customers can bring their CloudWatch data alongside their existing Prometheus data sources to improve their ability to join or query across for a holistic view of their systems. The Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a serverless […]
AWS named for the first time ever as a Challenger in 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring and Observability
This year, AWS was recognized for the first time as a Challenger in the 2022 Gartner Application Performance Monitoring and Observability (APM) Magic Quadrant. This is the first time AWS is recognized in the report’s 12-year history. The report is published annually and assesses vendors based on their Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. […]
Accelerate your Monitoring and Observability foundation through AWS Managed Services
To establish a strong foundation for efficiently and safely operating your workloads in the cloud, you must consider how you will monitor the health of your workloads. As described in the AWS Well-Architected Operational Excellence pillar, one of the cloud’s design principles for operational excellence is “Anticipate Failure.” Therefore, design your cloud operations with proactive […]
AWS Observability Services and Nobl9 Provide Quick and Easy SLO Monitoring
Learn how OutSystems uses AWS observability services and Nobl9 to establish and implement Service Level Objectives (SLOs) that consistently meet customers’ service availability expectations. What are SLOs? SLOs are essentially targets that are set for a given system’s desired consistency of behavior over time. SLO compliance is tracked based on service level indicators (SLIs), which […]
How to auto add new cross-account Amazon EC2 instances in a central Amazon CloudWatch dashboard
Managing various metrics of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances in multiple accounts can be challenging, especially if new instances are launched regularly. Amazon CloudWatch has a cross-account dashboard functionality that provides you with cross-account visibility to various metrics without having to log in and out of different accounts. In addition, CloudWatch dashboards are […]
AWS Managed Services Accelerate Operations Launch
AWS Managed Services (AMS) Accelerate is a new cloud operations offer that helps customers achieve operational excellence regardless of where they are in their cloud journey. Accelerate can operate all types of workloads running in AWS while giving customers complete freedom to use all AWS services. Accelerate uses AWS services for operations and security, such […]