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Tag: HAQM CloudWatch
Setup memory metrics for HAQM EC2 instances using AWS Systems Manager
HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (HAQM EC2) emits several metrics for your EC2 instance to HAQM CloudWatch. However, memory metrics isn’t one of the default metrics provided by HAQM EC2. Several memory heavy applications like Big Data Analytics, In-memory Databases, Real-time Streaming require you to monitor memory utilization on the instances for operational visibility. These applications […]
Centralized Dashboard for AWS Config and AWS Security Hub
Back in July 2022, we announced AWS config compliance scores for conformance packs which helps you quantify your compliance posture as an HAQM CloudWatch metric. It’s a quantitative measure of compliance status. While customers can have hundreds of AWS accounts where AWS Config is enabled and each account and each AWS Region have a different compliance score. While […]
Configuring thresholds for creating health events in HAQM CloudWatch Internet Monitor
You can now configure thresholds for when HAQM CloudWatch Internet Monitor creates health events for your application’s internet traffic. Internet Monitor creates health events when availability or performance scores drop across your application’s monitored geographies. Overview of threshold configuration options Internet Monitor provides near-continuous internet measurements for your internet traffic, including availability and performance metrics, […]
Announcing AWS CDK Observability Accelerator for HAQM EKS
Today we are happy to announce the all-new AWS CDK Observability Accelerator – a set of opinionated modules to help you set up observability for your AWS environments with AWS Native services and AWS-managed observability services such as HAQM Managed Service for Prometheus, HAQM Managed Grafana, AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) and HAQM CloudWatch. AWS […]
Approach to migrate Spring Cloud microservices applications to HAQM EKS
In this blog, we will look into how enterprises can approach migrating on-prem Spring Cloud microservices to HAQM Elastic Kubernetes Service (HAQM EKS). With managed service offerings from AWS, developers can eliminate the need to run and manage cross-cutting services like Service Registry, Config Server and API Gateway. By using AWS services, developers can focus on […]
Creating a near-realtime dashboard on HAQM CloudWatch for a Migration usecase
Monitoring performance metrics of AWS resources is crucial for any business use case running in cloud. AWS Well-Architected Framework best practices recommend customers to setup observability and monitoring for their infrastructure on AWS. But, as AWS usage for customer increases, it gets harder to observe and visualize the data and metrics at scale and identify […]
Announcing Live Tail feature for HAQM CloudWatch Logs
Learn with Shree and Jim about the newly released HAQM CloudWatch Logs Live Tail.
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
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 […]
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 […]