Tag: Amazon CloudWatch

This blog post will guide you through a quick start on using Amazon Q Developer for operational investigations on AWS. We’ll walk you through the step-by-step process of setting up this powerful AI-assisted troubleshooting tool . You’ll discover how to configure user permissions, manage data access, set up encryption, and start your first investigation. We […]

Customers operate hundreds of applications and often those applications consist of hundreds to thousands of resources. This can get complex and overwhelming having to monitor and manage individual resources and identifying what resources are tied to an application while making sure their applications are available, secure, cost-optimized, and performing optimally. The underlying concept of applications […]

This post is co-written with Nicolas Trettel, Cloud Engineering Senior Advisor at Cigna. Monitoring applications and alerting on issues is crucial for building resilient systems. Amazon CloudWatch is a service that monitors applications, responds to performance changes, optimizes resource use, and provides insights into operational health. By collecting data across AWS resources, CloudWatch gives visibility […]

With an ever-growing volume of custom metrics in Amazon CloudWatch, customers often find it difficult to understand and manage their spend on this service. One of the most common questions they have is how to identify which metrics contribute the most to their spend in CloudWatch. This blog post introduces a solution that lets you […]

Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor provides near-continuous internet measurements for your internet traffic, including availability and performance metrics, tailored to your specific workload footprint on AWS. With Internet Monitor, you can get insights into average internet performance metrics over time, as well as get alerts for issues (health events). You’re notified about events that impact your end […]

Customers use chat collaboration applications like Microsoft Teams and Slack to collaborate and manage their AWS applications. AWS Chatbot is a ChatOps service that enables customers to monitor, troubleshoot issues, and manage AWS applications from chat channels. AWS Chatbot provides autonomy and customizability to DevOps teams operating their AWS environments on the go from chat […]

Detecting security risks and investigating the corresponding findings is essential for protecting your AWS environment from potential threats, ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your data and resources for your business needs. AWS provides a range of governance and security services such as AWS Organizations, AWS Control Tower, and AWS Config along with many others, […]

AWS has been named as a Challenger in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms, previously known as Gartner Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Magic Quadrant. This report assesses vendors based on their Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. Compared to the previous year, AWS has moved up higher on the Ability […]

Blog is guest authored by Nasia Ullas of MSD. Enhancing the resilience and productivity of manufacturing processes is essential for pharmaceutical companies to meet business continuity objectives and innovate continuously. Merck & Co., Inc., also known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, a global bio-pharmaceutical company, mitigated resilience challenges by adopting AWS […]

With the pace of innovation with Generative AI applications, there is increasing demand for more granular observability into applications using Large Language Models (LLMs). Specifically, customers want visibility into: Prompt metrics like token usage, costs, and model IDs for individual transactions and operations, apart from service-level aggregations. Output quality factors including potential toxicity, harm, truncation […]