A New Integration for CloudWatch Alarms and OpsCenter

Over a year ago, I wrote about the Launch of a feature in AWS Systems Manager called OpsCenter, which allows customers to aggregate issues, events, and alerts into one place and make it easier for operations engineers and IT professionals to investigate and remediate problems. Today, I get to tell you about a new integration Read more about A New Integration for CloudWatch Alarms and OpsCenter[…]

Log your VPC DNS queries with Route 53 Resolver Query Logs

The Amazon Route 53 team has just launched a new feature called Route 53 Resolver Query Logs, which will let you log all DNS queries made by resources within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud. Whether it’s an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance, an AWS Lambda function, or a container, if it lives in your Read more about Log your VPC DNS queries with Route 53 Resolver Query Logs[…]

New – Use CloudWatch Synthetics to Monitor Sites, API Endpoints, Web Workflows, and More

Today’s applications encompass hundreds or thousands of moving parts including containers, microservices, legacy internal services, and third-party services. In addition to monitoring the health and performance of each part, you need to make sure that the parts come together to deliver an acceptable customer experience. CloudWatch Synthetics (announced at AWS re:Invent 2019) allows you to Read more about New – Use CloudWatch Synthetics to Monitor Sites, API Endpoints, Web Workflows, and More[…]

Simplified Time-Series Analysis with Amazon CloudWatch Contributor Insights

Inspecting multiple log groups and log streams can make it more difficult and time consuming to analyze and diagnose the impact of an issue in real time. What customers are affected? How badly? Are some affected more than others, or are outliers? Perhaps you performed deployment of an update using a staged rollout strategy and Read more about Simplified Time-Series Analysis with Amazon CloudWatch Contributor Insights[…]

CloudWatch Contributor Insights for DynamoDB – Now Generally Available

Amazon DynamoDB provides our customers a fully-managed key-value database service that can easily scale from a few requests per month to millions of requests per second. DynamoDB supports some of the world’s largest scale applications by providing consistent, single-digit millisecond response times at any scale. You can build applications with virtually unlimited throughput and storage. DynamoDB global Read more about CloudWatch Contributor Insights for DynamoDB – Now Generally Available[…]

Visualize and Monitor Highly Distributed Applications with Amazon CloudWatch ServiceLens

Increasingly distributed applications, with thousands of metrics and terabytes of logs, can be a challenge to visualize and monitor. Gaining an end-to-end insight of the applications and their dependencies to enable rapid pinpointing of performance bottlenecks, operational issues, and customer impact quite often requires the use of multiple dedicated tools each presenting their own particular Read more about Visualize and Monitor Highly Distributed Applications with Amazon CloudWatch ServiceLens[…]

New – Amazon CloudWatch Anomaly Detection

Amazon CloudWatch launched in early 2009 as part of our desire to (as I said at the time) “make it even easier for you to build sophisticated, scalable, and robust web applications using AWS.” We have continued to expand CloudWatch over the years, and our customers now use it to monitor their infrastructure, systems, applications, Read more about New – Amazon CloudWatch Anomaly Detection[…]

Learn From Your VPC Flow Logs With Additional Meta-Data

Flow Logs for Amazon Virtual Private Cloud enables you to capture information about the IP traffic going to and from network interfaces in your VPC. Flow Logs data can be published to Amazon CloudWatch Logs or Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). Since we launched VPC Flow Logs in 2015, you have been using it for Read more about Learn From Your VPC Flow Logs With Additional Meta-Data[…]

Operational Insights for Containers and Containerized Applications

The increasing adoption of containerized applications and microservices also brings an increased burden for monitoring and management. Builders have an expectation of, and requirement for, the same level of monitoring as would be used with longer lived infrastructure such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances. By contrast containers are relatively short-lived, and usually subject Read more about Operational Insights for Containers and Containerized Applications[…]