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Using Open Source Grafana Operator on your Kubernetes cluster to manage Amazon Managed Grafana
Introduction Kubernetes APIs are robust and its control loop mechanism allows us to control the state of resources that are even outside of Kubernetes environments. Customers have shifted their focus towards workload gravity and rely on Kubernetes-native controllers to deploy and manage the lifecycle of external resources such as Cloud resources. We have seen customers […]
Adding metrics and traces to your application on Amazon EKS with AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry, AWS X-Ray and Amazon CloudWatch
In order to make a system observable, it must be instrumented. This means that code to emit traces, metrics and logs must be added to the application either manually, with libraries, or with automatic instrumentation agents. Once deployed, the instrumented data from the application will be sent to the respective backend. There are a number […]
How Thomson Reuters used Amazon CloudWatch to improve availability and operational efficiency of Directory Services
Thomson Reuters Corporation (TR) is a Canadian multinational media company that provides critical online and print information, know-how, decision making tools, software, and services for the legal industry. TR’s Tax and Accounting business serves law firms, tax and accounting firms, global trade organizations, educational institutions, and more. Thomson Reuters operates in more than 100 countries […]
Monitor Istio on EKS using Amazon Managed Prometheus and Amazon Managed Grafana
Service Meshes are an integral part of the Kubernetes environment that enables secure, reliable, and observable communication. Istio is an open-source service mesh that provides advanced network features without requiring any changes to the application code. These capabilities include service-to-service authentication, monitoring, and more. Istio generates detailed telemetry for all service communications within a mesh. This telemetry […]