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Tag: Amazon CloudWatch
Get visibility into application health with Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights for .NET and SQL Server
To provide a reliable service to your customers, you need to make sure that your business-critical applications are healthy. If you have ever been involved in the monitoring process, you’re probably already aware of its complexity. You need to identify and configure the right set of monitors for various parts of your application and infrastructure, […]
Understanding AWS Lambda behavior using Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights
In this guest post, Alice Xiao, Data Analyst at financial services company State Street Corporation discusses how State Street built a framework using CloudWatch Logs Insights to support their innovation process of rapidly converting business ideas into client-centered applications. Introduction Customers want to do rapid prototyping and ensure critical defects are quickly resolved, so understanding […]
Tracking software licenses with AWS Service Catalog and AWS Step Functions
Enterprises have many business requirements for tracking how software product licenses are used in their organization for financial, governance, and compliance reasons. By tracking license usage, organizations can stay within budget, track expenditures, and avoid unplanned true-up bills from their vendors’ true-up processes. The goal is to track the usage licenses as resources are deployed. […]
How Twitch monitors its services with Amazon CloudWatch
by Alex Cioc and Steve McCurry Twitch is the leading service and community for multiplayer entertainment and is owned by Amazon. Twitch also provides social and features and micro-transaction features that drive content engagement for its audiences. These services operate at a high transaction volume. Twitch uses Amazon CloudWatch to monitor its business-critical services. It […]
How Moody’s uses AWS Systems Manager to patch servers across multiple cloud providers
Introduction Enterprises today continue to face challenges maintaining an inventory of all of their infrastructure. They need to ensure timely patching of their servers spread across their on-premises and cloud environments using the same set of tools. In this guest blog post, Divya Elaty, VP, Cloud Engineering at Moody’s, and Sarat Guttikonda, Global Solutions Architect […]
Create a metric math alarm using Amazon CloudWatch
In 2018 we launched metric math, which enables you to perform calculations across multiple metrics for real-time analysis. You can visualise these computed metrics through the Amazon CloudWatch console, add them to CloudWatch Dashboards, or retrieve through the newly launched GetMetricData API. You can use metric math to derive insights from your existing CloudWatch metrics and […]
Automating processes for handling and remediating AWS Abuse alerts
Introduction AWS Abuse addresses many different types of potentially abusive activity such as phishing, malware, spam, and denial of service (DoS)/ distributed denial of service (DDoS) incidents. When abuse is reported, we alert customers so they can take the remediation action that is necessary. Customers want to build automation for handling abuse events and the […]
Learn how to leverage Amazon CloudWatch alarms to create an incident in ServiceNow
This was blog was authored by Itai Njanji and third party collaborators: A special thanks to Grant Hulbert a Sr. Technology Alliance Architect for ServiceNow, who co-authored this blog Ben Yukich a Field CTO for ITOM at ServiceNow, who wrote the ServiceNow source code for this integration (Note: This post was updated September 22, 2020) Introduction Customers want […]