Category: Amazon CloudWatch

You may have encountered a situation in the past where a single user or small subset of users of your system are reporting an event that is impacting their experience, but your observability systems didn’t show any clear impact. The discrepancy between the customer’s experience and the system’s observation of its health is referred to […]

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) emits several metrics for your EC2 instance to Amazon CloudWatch. However, memory metrics isn’t one of the default metrics provided by Amazon EC2. Several memory heavy applications like Big Data Analytics, In-memory Databases, Real-time Streaming require you to monitor memory utilization on the instances for operational visibility. These applications […]

Observability helps you understand the health, usage, performance, and customer experience for your workloads. Observability can support many use cases, from detecting incidents and supporting incident resolution, to understanding the impact of new features on your users and workflow. Establishing the right solution depends on being able to gather the right data for your situation. […]

In today’s digital landscape, ensuring optimal application performance is crucial, and Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics enables proactive testing of web applications and APIs. If you are utilizing self-signed certificates and seeking to enhance your monitoring capabilities, this blog post will guide you step-by-step on how to modify the source code of your canary to support self-signed […]

You can now configure thresholds for when Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor creates health events for your application’s internet traffic. Internet Monitor creates health events when availability or performance scores drop across your application’s monitored geographies. Overview of threshold configuration options Internet Monitor provides near-continuous internet measurements for your internet traffic, including availability and performance metrics, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Learn with Shree and Jim about the newly released Amazon CloudWatch Logs Live Tail.