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Category: Management Tools

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 […]

Monitor AWS workloads without a single line of code with Logz.io and Kinesis Firehose

February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. Observability data provides near real-time insights into the health and performance of AWS workloads, so that engineers can quickly address production issues and troubleshoot them before widespread customer impact. As AWS workloads […]

Simplify data loading on the Amazon Redshift console with Informatica Data Loader

Amazon Redshift is a fast, petabyte-scale cloud data warehouse delivering the best price–performance. Tens of thousands of customers use Amazon Redshift to process exabytes of data every day to power their analytics workloads. Data engineers, data analysts, and data scientists want to use this data to power analytics workloads such as business intelligence (BI), predictive […]

Microservice observability with Amazon OpenSearch Service part 1: Trace and log correlation

Modern enterprises are increasingly adopting microservice architectures and moving away from monolithic structures. Although microservices provide agility in development and scalability, and encourage use of polyglot systems, they also add complexity. Troubleshooting distributed services is hard because the application behavioral data is distributed across multiple machines. Therefore, in order to have deep insights to troubleshoot […]

Automate Amazon Redshift Serverless data warehouse management using AWS CloudFormation and the AWS CLI

Amazon Redshift Serverless makes it simple to run and scale analytics without having to manage the instance type, instance size, lifecycle management, pausing, resuming, and so on. It automatically provisions and intelligently scales data warehouse compute capacity to deliver fast performance for even the most demanding and unpredictable workloads, and you pay only for what […]

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Visualize Amazon S3 data using Amazon Athena and Amazon Managed Grafana

Grafana is a popular open-source analytics platform that you can employ to create, explore, and share your data through flexible dashboards. Its use cases include application and IoT device monitoring, and visualization of operational and business data, among others. You can create your dashboard with your own datasets or publicly available datasets related to your […]

Use AWS CloudWatch as a destination for Amazon Redshift Audit logs

Amazon Redshift is a fast, scalable, secure, and fully-managed cloud data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all of your data using standard SQL. Amazon Redshift has comprehensive security capabilities to satisfy the most demanding requirements. To help you to monitor the database for security and troubleshooting purposes, Amazon Redshift logs information […]

Monitor your Amazon QuickSight deployments using the new Amazon CloudWatch integration

Amazon QuickSight is a fully-managed, cloud-native business intelligence (BI) service that makes it easy to connect to your data, create interactive dashboards, and share these with tens of thousands of users, either within the QuickSight interface or embedded in software as a service (SaaS) applications or web portals. With QuickSight providing insights to power your […]