Category: Management Tools

Amazon CloudWatch RUM makes it easy for AWS customers to access real-world performance metrics from web applications, thereby giving insights into the end-user experience. These user experiences are quantified into discrete metrics that you can then create alarms for. But what if you must have different load time alarms for certain pages? Or you’re testing […]

UPDATE: This blog post has been published to include information about the recently added support for KEDA with the Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP).” Orchestration platforms such as Amazon EKS and Amazon ECS have simplified the process of building, securing, operating, and maintaining container-based applications, thereby helping organizations focus on building applications. We simplified this further […]

In a previous blog post, we provided a walkthrough of how to fix unreachable Amazon EC2 Windows instances using the EC2Rescue for Windows tool. In this blog post, I will walk you through how to utilize EC2Rescue for Linux to fix unreachable Linux instances. This Knowledge Center Article describes how EC2Rescue for Linux can be used to […]

During late August 2021, we made Amazon Managed Grafana generally available, and around re:Invent we launched some new features, specifically for new plugins. This post provides you with the high-level overview and shows you some of them in action. Amazon Managed Grafana is a fully managed service that handles the provisioning, setup, scaling, and maintenance […]

Amazon CloudWatch has recently launched Metrics Insights (Preview) – a fast, flexible, SQL-based query engine that enables you to identify trends and patterns across millions of operational metrics in real-time. With Metrics Insights, you can easily query and analyze your metrics to gain better visibility into the health and performance of your infrastructure and large scale […]

The updated version (June 2022) that follows is based on working backward from a customer need to understand Service Level Objectives (“SLOs”) and the benefits from monitoring SLOs. This post was originally written in Nov 2021 by Natalia Sikora-Zimna, Product Owner at Nobl9. A service can be provided by infrastructure, a platform, software, or people. […]

License Flexibility Many organizations have an existing investment in Microsoft licenses. This includes licenses for the Windows Server Operating System and Microsoft SQL Server. Customers who have decided to migrate to AWS often want to leverage their existing investment in Microsoft licenses to reduce the costs associated with the move. However, many customers also need […]

In the second post of this two-part series, I will demonstrate how to utilize the Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics canary that uses the multiple HTTP endpoints blueprint in order to monitor an application requiring an authentication certificate. The first post Multi-step API monitoring using Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics provided steps to create an Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics script for executing a […]

Amazon CloudWatch enables customers to collect monitoring and operational data in the form of logs, metrics, alarms, and events, thereby allowing easy workload visualization and notifications. Traditionally, operational health data access was only viewable for technical support staff, thereby making operational health opaque to a wider business audience. However, actionable and valuable business insights can […]

This post was co-authored by Amy McVey and Jarrod Lewis from AER As AWS usage within a business increases over time, it can become difficult to track the AWS resources that have been created (e.g. EC2 instances, S3 buckets) and who is responsible for them. This can lead to unnecessary costs from resources that are […]