AWS Cloud Operations Blog
Category: Monitoring and observability
Using environment variables with HAQM CloudWatch Synthetics
With the increase in online traffic, organizations have prioritized the continuous monitoring of their applications so that they can detect issues before they cause widespread problems. Canaries emulate a user flow, making it possible for organizations to proactively catch errors thereby ensuring a good customer experience. HAQM CloudWatch Synthetics allows you to create canaries to […]
Use tags to create and maintain HAQM CloudWatch alarms for HAQM 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 HAQM CloudWatch metric alarms for HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (HAQM EC2) instances by using HAQM EC2 instance tags. Creating and configuring a standard set of CloudWatch alarms for a large […]
Use tags to create and maintain HAQM CloudWatch alarms for HAQM 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 HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (HAQM EC2) instances using EC2 instance tags. In this post, I show how you […]
Manage HAQM EC2 instance clock accuracy using HAQM Time Sync Service and HAQM CloudWatch – Part 2
In part 1 of this series, I cover important concepts about measuring the accuracy of time on HAQM EC2 instances . I discussed calculating ClockErrorBound (?) and using its value as a range between which system time is accurate. In this part, I walk through the process of using HAQM CloudWatch to measure and monitor […]
Manage HAQM EC2 instance clock accuracy using HAQM Time Sync Service and HAQM CloudWatch – Part 1
This two-part series discusses the measurement and management of time accuracy on HAQM EC2 instances. Part 1 covers the important concepts related to system and reference time. Part 2 covers the mechanism of measure, monitor, and maintain accurate system time on EC2 instances. A large and diverse set of customer workloads depends on the observed […]
Monitor API Gateway endpoints with HAQM CloudWatch Synthetics
Monitoring the health of your API endpoints is important to understand the overall health of your workloads. You can use HAQM CloudWatch Synthetics to monitor your API endpoints and understand the overall health of your workloads. CloudWatch Synthetics canaries allow you to monitor API endpoints by creating HTTP steps and configuring the request type, endpoint URL, […]