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Category: HAQM CloudWatch

Simplify analysis of AWS CloudTrail data leveraging HAQM 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 HAQM CloudWatch that simplifies and streamlines the analysis and monitoring of AWS CloudTrail recorded activities. HAQM CloudWatch anomaly detection allows […]

Use HAQM CloudWatch Contributor Insights for general analysis of NGINX logs

Customers build, deploy, and maintain millions of web applications on AWS and many customers deploy these applications using NGINX. The NGINX application server offers configurability, scalability, and the ability to handle millions of concurrent requests. Web application performance is key in modern enterprise infrastructure and applications. Customers leverage CloudWatch to monitor response times, uptime, and […]

Managing CloudWatch Synthetics canaries at scale

Managing CloudWatch Synthetics canaries at scale

HAQM CloudWatch Synthetics offers an automated approach to monitoring the performance and availability of your application endpoints, REST APIs, and website content, allowing you to discover issues before your customers do. As your applications and suite of accompanying canaries grows over time, it becomes more challenging and time consuming to manage them at scale. This […]

Perform A/B testing and dark launches of your IoT applications using AWS IoT Core and HAQM CloudWatch Evidently

Perform A/B testing and dark launches of your IoT applications using AWS IoT Core and HAQM CloudWatch Evidently

The development of Internet of Things (IoT) applications is accelerating as companies build and maintain these applications at a faster pace to meet the needs of their customers and to continuously deliver valuable business results. In addition to scheduled updates pushed to IoT devices, feature flags allow you to activate dormant code present in your […]

How to grant least privilege access to third-parties on your private EC2 instances with AWS Systems Manager

AWS Systems Manager Session Manager provides a more secure way to manage your HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances without the need to open inbound ports, maintain bastion hosts, or manage SSH keys. Furthermore, you can use it with a combination of AWS services to give access to external third-parties. Due to business requirements, you […]

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

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

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

How to set up HAQM CloudWatch alarms to monitor IO metrics of AWS EBS volumes performance using metric math

How to set up HAQM CloudWatch alarms to monitor IO metrics of HAQM EBS volumes performance using metric math

To prevent application or database performance hiccups from latency of a disk, it is very critical to monitor disk I/O and usage for performance issues. Disk I/O is the amount of read or write or input/output operations that occur during a period, in other words it measures the data transfer speed between a disk and […]

Use HAQM CloudWatch Internet Monitor for greater visibility into online experiences

Today millions of internet users access applications hosted globally across 167,000 cities served by over 74,000 autonomous systems (ASNs). Tracking constantly changing network routes can be a daunting task for Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), application developers, network operators, systems engineers, and cloud solutions architects. With HAQM CloudWatch Internet Monitor, teams can quickly identify the network […]

Visualize and gain insights into your VPC Flow logs with HAQM Managed Grafana

Modern IT infrastructure in Cloud is becoming increasingly distributed and data intensive. With the growing number of devices, applications, and users consuming the services, the amount of data being transmitted across networks is increasing rapidly. This increase in data warrants organizations to have visibility in the network traffic. Analysis of network traffic can help in […]