Category: Technical How-to

Introduction As organizations scale their AWS footprint across multiple accounts and Regions, operations teams increasingly rely on Amazon CloudWatch Metrics Insights alarms with GROUP BY to monitor entire fleets from a single alarm. When this single alarm tracks hundreds of resources, a critical operational question arises: how do you ensure that every individual breach is […]

The production standards that matter most are often the ones no general purpose tool is built to check. For example, the read replica behind your customer dashboard can’t lag more than five seconds behind the primary, but the analytics replica can tolerate lag during peak ingestion. The nightly extract, transform, and load (ETL) job should […]

Introduction Every development team knows the frustration: a GitHub Actions workflow fails, a notification fires, and an engineer begins the manual triage loop; read the logs, identify the root cause, write a fix, open a pull request, wait for review, merge, re-run the workflow, and hope it passes. For organizations running dozens or hundreds of […]

Teams running hybrid or multi-cloud estates collect telemetry from proprietary appliances, on-premises Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools, home-grown agents, and Apache Kafka streams that all must be parsed, normalized, and routed before it’s useful. Amazon CloudWatch lets you collect logs from 60+ AWS services, 20+ third-party tools, and your own applications using CloudWatch pipelines, HTTP […]

Operations teams managing AWS infrastructure must resolve issues quickly while maintaining thorough documentation and following best practices. Traditional workflows create bottlenecks where valuable engineering time is consumed by administrative tasks rather than actual problem-solving, directly impacting system availability and customer experience. Kiro CLI removes this administrative overhead. Kiro CLI is an AI-powered command-line assistant for […]

Deploy an OpenTelemetry gateway on Amazon EKS, export metrics to CloudWatch over native OTLP, and monitor the pipeline’s own health with PromQL dashboards and alarms.

Your alarm fires at 2 AM. You grab your phone, squint at the notification, and see: “ALARM: my-service-alarm has transitioned to ALARM state.” No context. No application. No hint about which of your 200 instances is the problem, or whether it even matters. I’ve been there. We’ve all been there. Alarm frustration often comes from […]

TL;DR What if you could go from raw Amazon S3 server access logs to a complete security dashboard without building a custom pipeline? The dashboard below is deployed using the CloudFormation template provided in this post. Figure 1: Amazon S3 Server Access Logs Security, Compliance & Audit Dashboard Until now, getting security visibility from Amazon […]

Teams working with distributed applications accumulate logs across multiple log groups, including application logs, access logs, and audit trails. When something needs investigating, an engineer opens the console and starts writing queries from scratch. The same query gets written differently by different people. The results lack context because the log event does not contain who […]

Editor’s note (July 2026): This post has been updated to reflect the launch of Amazon CloudWatch Coding Agent Insights, a purpose-built experience for monitoring AI coding agent usage. The dashboard deployment section now references Coding Agent Insights for CloudWatch users, with the custom PromQL dashboard retained for Amazon Managed Grafana. If your engineering organization uses […]