End User Experience Monitoring on AWS

Welcome to the exciting world of end user experience monitoring on AWS! In Chapters 3, Gathering Operational Data Using Amazon CloudWatch, through Chapter 7, Observability for Serverless Application on AWS, we discussed how you can observe the applications running on AWS across different workloads including EC2, containers, and serverless compute systems such as Lambda, based on the building blocks of observability of gathering metrics, logs, and traces. While this provided us with a solid foundation to tackle issues we know about, it’s equally important to consider issues we might not know about yet. We build and run applications to serve the users, and it is always good to understand how our applications are performing from the user’s perspective, not just from the server’s standpoint. This is where end user experience monitoring comes into play, and AWS offers a wide range of services to help you understand the end user...