Summary

Developing software applications is only one part of the challenge. Maintaining them in a productive environment (at an enterprise scale) requires equal commitment and engineering effort. This can only be achieved with a solid observability strategy that allows you to not only react faster to operational issues but also gather meaningful insights that allow you to continue delivering differentiated business outcomes to your users.

We started this chapter with a basic understanding of what observability is and why it matters. Equipped with that knowledge, we then moved on to discussing the AWS observability platform – CloudWatch – and the solutions or integrations it offers for each of the observability pillars – metrics, logs, and traces. In addition to that, we discussed AWS’s efforts in the CNCF’s Open Telemetry project and the ADOT collector, which allows you to seamlessly collect, process, and export metrics, logs, and traces to other...