AWS Cloud Operations Blog
Category: Amazon CloudWatch
Enhance observability for Network Load Balancers using Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor
Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor now provides internet performance and availability measurements for user traffic that accesses specific Network Load Balancers. Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor (Internet Monitor) now provides the ability to get internet performance and availability measurements for user traffic to specific Network Load Balancers (NLBs). This blog post describes how this new capability can […]
Monitor hybrid and multicloud environments using AWS Systems Manager and Amazon CloudWatch
As customers accelerate their migrations to the cloud and transform their businesses, some find themselves in situations where they have to manage IT operations in a hybrid or multicloud environment. These customers are faced with additional complexity when it comes to operating their applications and infrastructure. They often must use solutions from multiple providers to […]
Announcing AWS CDK Observability Accelerator for Amazon EKS
Today we are happy to announce the all-new AWS CDK Observability Accelerator – a set of opinionated modules to help you set up observability for your AWS environments with AWS Native services and AWS-managed observability services such as Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, Amazon Managed Grafana, AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) and Amazon CloudWatch. AWS […]
Simplify analysis of AWS CloudTrail data leveraging Amazon CloudWatch machine learning and advanced capabilities
AWS CloudTrail tracks user and API activities across AWS environments for governance and auditing purposes and allows customers to centralize a record of these activities. Customers have the option to send AWS CloudTrail logs to Amazon CloudWatch that simplifies and streamlines the analysis and monitoring of AWS CloudTrail recorded activities. Amazon CloudWatch anomaly detection allows […]
Announcing Live Tail feature for Amazon CloudWatch Logs
Learn with Shree and Jim about the newly released Amazon CloudWatch Logs Live Tail.
Use Amazon CloudWatch Contributor Insights for general analysis of NGINX logs
Customers build, deploy, and maintain millions of web applications on AWS and many customers deploy these applications using NGINX. The NGINX application server offers configurability, scalability, and the ability to handle millions of concurrent requests. Web application performance is key in modern enterprise infrastructure and applications. Customers leverage CloudWatch to monitor response times, uptime, and […]
Managing CloudWatch Synthetics canaries at scale
Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics offers an automated approach to monitoring the performance and availability of your application endpoints, REST APIs, and website content, allowing you to discover issues before your customers do. As your applications and suite of accompanying canaries grows over time, it becomes more challenging and time consuming to manage them at scale. This […]
Perform A/B testing and dark launches of your IoT applications using AWS IoT Core and Amazon CloudWatch Evidently
The development of Internet of Things (IoT) applications is accelerating as companies build and maintain these applications at a faster pace to meet the needs of their customers and to continuously deliver valuable business results. In addition to scheduled updates pushed to IoT devices, feature flags allow you to activate dormant code present in your […]
How to grant least privilege access to third-parties on your private EC2 instances with AWS Systems Manager
AWS Systems Manager Session Manager provides a more secure way to manage your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances without the need to open inbound ports, maintain bastion hosts, or manage SSH keys. Furthermore, you can use it with a combination of AWS services to give access to external third-parties. Due to business requirements, you […]
Automate creation of Amazon CloudWatch alarms and dashboards with AWS Systems Manager and Ansible
Monitoring Amazon EC2 instances is critical to proactively identify any underlying issues or to troubleshoot the performance of the instances. Amazon CloudWatch provides a reliable, scalable, and flexible monitoring solution. Customers running EC2 instances in a self-managed environment typically use Amazon CloudWatch metrics to monitor the performance of their instances and set up alarms for […]