AWS Cloud Operations Blog
Category: HAQM CloudWatch
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 HAQM 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 […]
Easily set up HAQM CloudWatch Internet Monitor
HAQM 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 […]
Why a Cloud Operating Model?
A thought leadership blog highlighting an “innovative approach” to Cloud Operations excellence and Well-Architected goals. This blog walks you through MuleSoft carrying out this new approach including their: Challenge Innovation Journey Implementation of the Cloud Operating Model Challenge Whether companies are migrating to the cloud, or cloud-native, executives are faced with controlling costs and continuous […]
Monitoring Windows services with HAQM CloudWatch
If you run Windows workloads on HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (HAQM EC2), monitoring the health and performance of your Windows Services is essential for reliable systems administration. It’s not just about ensuring uptime; it’s about having a pulse on your system’s health and performance. With a variety of services operating in the background, each playing […]
Multi-tenant monitoring across accounts and regions using HAQM Managed Service for Prometheus
In this guest blog post, Nauman Noor (Managing Director), Fabio Dias (Cloud Developer), and Dylan Alibay (Cloud Developer) from the platform engineering team at State Street discuss their use of HAQM Managed Prometheus and AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry to enable monitoring in a multi-tenant, multi-account, and multi-region environment. In the ever-evolving financial services landscape, State […]
Introducing HAQM CloudWatch Alarm Recommendations
HAQM CloudWatch is a foundational AWS service that provides you with actionable insights into your cloud resources and applications. With HAQM CloudWatch Metrics, you can gain better visibility into your infrastructure and large-scale application performance. You can set up alarms using HAQM CloudWatch Alarms for metrics emitted by AWS services or your applications. Identifying which metrics […]
How to monitor application health using SLOs with HAQM CloudWatch Application Signals
Today, customers operate tens, hundreds, or even thousands of applications arranged in complex distributed systems composed of many interdependent services. These applications need to be continuously available and performant to maintain end-user satisfaction and business growth. HAQM CloudWatch Application Signals (now in Preview) makes it easy to automatically instrument and operate applications on AWS to […]
How to centralize CloudWatch Alarms with HAQM EventBridge and AWS CloudFormation
HAQM 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 […]
Automate the creation of AWS Support cases using HAQM CloudWatch alarms and HAQM Bedrock
For production applications, the Mean-Time-To-Recovery (MTTR) is critical. In line with this, AWS offers Business, Enterprise On-Ramp and Enterprise support plans where AWS customers can benefit from shorter response time for cases related to production and business critical workloads. However, without having an automated way to notify AWS support, creating a case is a manual […]