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Monitor your AWS resources on your mobile device with AWS Console Mobile Application

AWS customers are increasingly relying on AWS User Notifications to monitor and get real-time notifications about the AWS resources that are most important to them. The AWS Console Mobile Application can be configured as a notification delivery channel, where users can monitor AWS resources, get detailed resource notifications, diagnose issues, and take remedial actions, from […]

Accelerate troubleshooting with structured logs in Amazon CloudWatch

Accelerate troubleshooting with structured logs in Amazon CloudWatch

Troubleshooting often involves complex analysis across fragmented telemetry data. While alarms on metrics can signal high-level deviations, deeper context often resides in other areas such as log messages, which help uncover the root cause. This disjointed approach not only consumes time and effort, but also inflates telemetry costs. In this post, we’ll showcase how structured […]

How to centralize CloudWatch Alarms with Amazon EventBridge and AWS CloudFormation

Amazon CloudWatch lets customers collect monitoring and operational data in the form of logs, metrics, and events, providing an easy way to monitor and receive notifications regarding their workload health and often integrate directly with other systems, such as JIRA Service Desk and ServiceNow. The CloudWatch alarms feature lets you monitor CloudWatch metrics and receive […]

Simplify analysis of AWS CloudTrail data leveraging Amazon CloudWatch machine learning and advanced capabilities

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 […]

Automate creation of Amazon CloudWatch alarms and dashboards with AWS Systems Manager and Ansible

Automate creation of Amazon CloudWatch alarms and dashboards with AWS Systems Manager and Ansible

Monitoring Amazon EC2 instances is critical to proactively identify any underlying issues or to troubleshoot the performance of the instances. Amazon CloudWatch provides a reliable, scalable, and flexible monitoring solution. Customers running EC2 instances in a self-managed environment typically use Amazon CloudWatch metrics to monitor the performance of their instances and set up alarms for […]

Analyzing AWS WAF Logs in Amazon CloudWatch Logs

Update April 17 2023 : The Contributor Insights rules provided in this blog post are now natively available in CloudWatch Contributor Insights. This post shows you how to use Amazon CloudWatch features, such as Logs Insights, Contributor Insights, and Metric Filters to analyze AWS Web Application Firewall (AWS WAF) logs, create dashboards, and generate alarms. […]

Use Amazon EventBridge rules to run AWS Systems Manager automation in response to CloudWatch Alarms

Use Amazon EventBridge rules to run AWS Systems Manager automation in response to CloudWatch alarms

Since its launch in 2009, Amazon CloudWatch has become the cloud-native choice for a monitoring and observability service built for DevOps engineers, developers, site reliability engineers (SREs), and IT managers. CloudWatch provides you with data and actionable insights to monitor your applications, respond to system-wide performance changes, optimize resource utilization, and get a unified view […]

Showing the title of the blog post Use Jira Service Management to track and resolve operational items related to AWS resources" with Service connector log at the bottom

Use Jira Service Management to track and resolve operational items related to AWS resources

Customers can use the AWS Service Management Connector for Jira Service Desk to enable the OpsCenter integration feature on Jira projects. Using a scenario involving an operational item in AWS, this blog post walks you through an example of investigating and resolving an OpsCenter OpsItem from within Jira Service Management.

Architecture diagram with icons representing the AWS services and their relationships for the CloudWatchAutoAlarms Lambda function

Use tags to create and maintain Amazon CloudWatch alarms for Amazon EC2 instances (Part 1)

This blog post is the first in a two-part series. I walk you through a solution to automatically create and enforce a standard set of Amazon CloudWatch metric alarms for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud  (Amazon EC2) instances by using Amazon EC2 instance tags. Creating and configuring a standard set of CloudWatch alarms for a large […]

Use tags to create and maintain Amazon CloudWatch alarms for Amazon EC2 instances (Part 2)

This blog post is the second in a two-part series. Part one of this blog post showed how to deploy and configure the CloudWatchAutoAlarms Lambda function to create a default alarm set and custom alarms for your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances using EC2 instance tags. In this post, I show how you […]