AWS Big Data Blog
Category: Management Tools
Monitor Apache Spark applications on Amazon EMR with Amazon Cloudwatch
To improve a Spark application’s efficiency, it’s essential to monitor its performance and behavior. In this post, we demonstrate how to publish detailed Spark metrics from Amazon EMR to Amazon CloudWatch. This will give you the ability to identify bottlenecks while optimizing resource utilization.
Monitor data pipelines in a serverless data lake
AWS serverless services, including but not limited to AWS Lambda, AWS Glue, AWS Fargate, Amazon EventBridge, Amazon Athena, Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), have become the building blocks for any serverless data lake, providing key mechanisms to ingest and transform data […]
Centralize near-real-time governance through alerts on Amazon Redshift data warehouses for sensitive queries
Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud that delivers powerful and secure insights on all your data with the best price-performance. With Amazon Redshift, you can analyze your data to derive holistic insights about your business and your customers. In many organizations, one or multiple Amazon Redshift data warehouses […]
Simplify AWS Glue job orchestration and monitoring with Amazon MWAA
Organizations across all industries have complex data processing requirements for their analytical use cases across different analytics systems, such as data lakes on AWS, data warehouses (Amazon Redshift), search (Amazon OpenSearch Service), NoSQL (Amazon DynamoDB), machine learning (Amazon SageMaker), and more. Analytics professionals are tasked with deriving value from data stored in these distributed systems […]
How Huron built an Amazon QuickSight Asset Catalogue with AWS CDK Based Deployment Pipeline
This is a guest blog post co-written with Corey Johnson from Huron. Having an accurate and up-to-date inventory of all technical assets helps an organization ensure it can keep track of all its resources with metadata information such as their assigned owners, last updated date, used by whom, how frequently, and more. It helps engineers, […]
Push Amazon EMR step logs from Amazon EC2 instances to Amazon CloudWatch logs
Amazon EMR is a big data service offered by AWS to run Apache Spark and other open-source applications on AWS to build scalable data pipelines in a cost-effective manner. Monitoring the logs generated from the jobs deployed on EMR clusters is essential to help detect critical issues in real time and identify root causes quickly. […]
Visualize database privileges on Amazon Redshift using Grafana
Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud. Amazon Redshift enables you to use SQL for analyzing structured and semi-structured data with best price performance along with secure access to the data. As more users start querying data in a data warehouse, access control is paramount to protect valuable organizational […]
Enhance operational insights for Amazon MSK using Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus and Amazon Managed Grafana
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) is an event streaming platform that you can use to build asynchronous applications by decoupling producers and consumers. Monitoring of different Amazon MSK metrics is critical for efficient operations of production workloads. Amazon MSK gathers Apache Kafka metrics and sends them to Amazon CloudWatch, where you can […]
Automate deployment of an Amazon QuickSight analysis connecting to an Amazon Redshift data warehouse with an AWS CloudFormation template
Amazon Redshift is the most widely used data warehouse in the cloud, best suited for analyzing exabytes of data and running complex analytical queries. Amazon QuickSight is a fast business analytics service to build visualizations, perform ad hoc analysis, and quickly get business insights from your data. QuickSight provides easy integration with Amazon Redshift, providing […]
Build near real-time logistics dashboards using Amazon Redshift and Amazon Managed Grafana for better operational intelligence
Amazon Redshift is a fully managed data warehousing service that is currently helping tens of thousands of customers manage analytics at scale. It continues to lead price-performance benchmarks, and separates compute and storage so each can be scaled independently and you only pay for what you need. It also eliminates data silos by simplifying access […]