AWS Cloud Operations & Migrations Blog
Category: Amazon CloudWatch
Introducing CloudWatch Resource Health to monitor your EC2 hosts
Today, AWS announced Amazon CloudWatch Resource Health, a fully managed solution that customers can use to automatically discover, manage, and visualize the health and performance of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) hosts across their applications. Resource Health provides a centralized view of your EC2 hosts by performance dimensions such as CPU or memory utilization. […]
Monitoring your EC2 server fleet with advanced CloudWatch agent capabilities
Customers who are running fleets of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances use advanced monitoring techniques to observe their operational performance. Capabilities like aggregated and custom dimensions help customers categorize and customize their metrics across server fleets for fast and efficient decision making. Customers need visibility not only into infrastructure metrics (like CPU and […]
Reinventing automated operations (Part II)
The first post in this series, Reinventing automated operations (Part I), covered the importance of operations in the cloud and how deferring the creation of an operations plan can slow down your migration. In this post, I’ll share the primary mechanism of iterative improvement (aka flywheel) that AWS Managed Services (AMS) uses to increase operational […]
Detecting and remediating process issues on EC2 instances using Amazon CloudWatch and AWS Systems Manager
Customers want to have visibility into processes running inside their Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. Critical processes and services in these instances can crash unexpectedly and when they do, it’s crucial for customers to be notified so they can maintain continued business operations. There are multiple ways to see if a service is […]
Use AWS Control Tower lifecycle events to automate configuration of AWS accounts for ServiceNow IT operations management
Several organizations that I work with use ServiceNow’s IT Operations management capabilities for their on-premises infrastructure and want to leverage the same capabilities for their AWS environment as well. Some of the core capabilities of ServiceNow’s IT Operations management are ServiceNow Discovery, Event Management and Cloud Management. Currently, customers who want to enable ServiceNow’s Cloud […]
Delete Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics dependent resources when you delete a CloudFormation stack
Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics allows you to monitor application endpoints more easily. It runs tests on your endpoints every minute, and alerts you if your application endpoints don’t behave as expected. These tests can be customized to check for availability, latency, transactions, broken or dead links, page load errors, load latencies for UI assets, complex wizard […]
Sending CloudFront standard logs to CloudWatch Logs for analysis
Amazon CloudFront is a fast content delivery network (CDN) service that securely delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs to customers globally with low latency, high transfer speeds, all within a developer-friendly environment. CloudFront standard logs (also known as access logs) give you visibility into requests that are made to a CloudFront distribution. The logs can […]
How to create an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling policy based on a memory utilization metric (Linux)
This is the first in a two-part series about how to create an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling policy based on memory utilization metric. This post covers Linux OS. In part 2 I’ll cover how to create an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling policy based on a memory utilization metric in Windows OS. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling […]
How to create an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling policy based on a memory utilization metric (Windows)
In the first of this two-part series, I showed you how to create an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling policy based on a memory utilization metric for Linux OS. In this second post, I walk through how to create Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling policy based on memory utilization metric for Windows OS. I will use a […]
Explore four new features in AWS Chatbot
Discover 4 new features in AWS Chatbot to help you monitor and interact with AWS resources. You will learn about CloudWatch composite alarm notifications in chat channels, AWS CLI command output customization, AWS Chatbot channel configuration setup verification, and in-app feedback mechanism.