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Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals new enhancements for application monitoring

Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals new enhancements for application monitoring

Today, we’re excited to announce new enhanced features in Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals that simplifies how you monitor large-scale distributed applications. Improvements to CloudWatch Application Signals application map automatically discovers and organizes services into groups based on their relationships, with support for custom grouping that aligns with your business perspective. You can now view the […]

Simplifying Log Management using Amazon CloudWatch Logs Centralization

Managing logs across multiple AWS accounts and regions has always been a complex challenge for organizations. As AWS infrastructure grows to include separate accounts for production, development, and staging environments, along with regions, the complexity of log management increases exponentially. During critical incidents, especially during off-hours, teams spend valuable time, searching through multiple accounts, correlating […]

Optimizing metrics ingestion with Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus

Optimizing metrics ingestion with Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus

Managing metrics collection at scale in complex cloud environments presents significant challenges for organizations, particularly when it comes to controlling costs and maintaining operational efficiency. As the volume of metrics grows exponentially with the expansion of container deployments and other cloud-native workloads, customers often struggle to balance comprehensive monitoring with resource optimization. This can lead […]

Alarming on SLOs in Amazon Search with CloudWatch Application Signals – Part 2

Alarming on SLOs in Amazon Search with CloudWatch Application Signals – Part 2

In practice: SLO monitoring with CloudWatch Application Signals In the previous post, we’ve shared the basic concepts and benefits of burn rate monitoring. In this post, we, the Amazon Product Search team, will share anecdotes from our migration from an in-house solution to CloudWatch Application Signals, and introduce how we actually implement monitoring and dashboards. […]

Alarming on SLOs in Amazon Search with CloudWatch Application Signals – Part 1

Alarming on SLOs in Amazon Search with CloudWatch Application Signals – Part 1

In theory: SLO concepts applied to Amazon Product Search In this series of posts, we will show you how we, the Amazon Product Search team, monitor key systems using Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and share our migration journey from an in-house solution to Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals. Amazon Product Search is a large distributed system […]

Using Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Nova for AI-Powered Incident Response

In today’s cloud-native world, incident response teams face overwhelming challenges. When critical applications fail, engineers must sift through mountains of observability data across multiple services; all while under intense pressure to restore service quickly. This manual correlation process is time-consuming, error-prone, and often delays resolution, resulting in extended outages and frustrated customers. Traditional monitoring tools […]

Launching Amazon CloudWatch generative AI observability  (Preview)

Launching Amazon CloudWatch generative AI observability  (Preview)

As organizations rapidly deploy large language models (LLMs) and generative AI agents to power increasingly intelligent workloads, they struggle to monitor and troubleshoot the complex interactions within their AI applications. Traditional monitoring tools fall short in providing the visibility across components, leading to developers and AI/ML engineers to manually correlate interaction logs or building custom […]

Observing Agentic AI workloads using Amazon CloudWatch agent

Introduction As the adoption of agentic AI applications continues to grow, ensuring the reliability, performance, and overall observability of these systems becomes increasingly critical. Agentic AI applications, powered by large language models (LLM) and integrated with various data sources and APIs, can quickly become complex, making it challenging to gain visibility into their inner workings […]

Optimizing Queries with Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus

Optimizing Queries with Amazon Managed Prometheus

Introduction In today’s cloud-native environments, organizations rely on metrics monitoring to maintain application reliability and performance. Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus serves as a tool for storing and analyzing application and infrastructure metrics. As applications and platforms evolve, teams often discover opportunities to optimize their metrics querying patterns. Common scenarios like expanding service deployments, growing […]

How Indegene Optimizes User Experience with Amazon CloudWatch

In today’s digital healthcare landscape, optimal application performance and user experience are crucial for business success. Indegene, a digital-first life sciences commercialization company, combines deep medical expertise with domain-contextualized technology to help clients accelerate innovation, modernize operations, and improve customer experience. With the world’s top 20 pharma companies among its clientele, Indegene brings an AI-first […]