You're reading from AWS Observability Handbook Monitor, trace, and alert your cloud applications with AWS' myriad observability tools

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804616710

Length 504 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

DevOps

Authors (2):

Fabio Oliveira

Phani Kumar Lingamallu

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Getting Started with Observability on AWS

2. Chapter 1: Observability 101 FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Overview of the Observability Landscape on AWS

4. Chapter 3: Gathering Operational Data and Alerting Using Amazon CloudWatch

5. Chapter 4: Implementing Distributed Tracing Using AWS X-Ray

6. Part 2: Automated and Machine Learning-Powered Observability on AWS

7. Chapter 5: Insights into Operational Data with CloudWatch

8. Chapter 6: Observability for Containerized Applications on AWS

9. Chapter 7: Observability for Serverless Applications on AWS

10. Chapter 8: End User Experience Monitoring on AWS

11. Part 3: Open Source Managed Services on AWS

12. Chapter 9: Collecting Metrics and Traces Using OpenTelemetry

13. Chapter 10: Deploying and Configuring an Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus

14. Chapter 11: Deploying the Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana Stack Using Amazon OpenSearch Service

15. Part 4: Scaled Observability and Beyond

16. Chapter 12: Augmenting the Human Operator with Amazon DevOps Guru

17. Chapter 13: Observability Best Practices at Scale

18. Chapter 14: Be Well-Architected for Operational Excellence

19. Chapter 15: The Role of Observability in the Cloud Adoption Framework

20. Index

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Insights into Operational Data with CloudWatch

In the previous chapter, we learned how to implement AWS X-Ray to understand the user journey and how it provides observability for an application running on an EC2 instance. In this chapter, we will see how data in CloudWatch metrics can be presented to solve operational issues and enhance the experience of the operational team. We will then look at instrumenting an application running on an EC2 instance using AWS Application Insights and how that simplifies the job of an operational team due to the auto-instrumenting functionality. Further, we will look into deriving and understanding operational intelligence from CloudWatch Logs using CloudWatch Logs Insights. We will also look at CloudWatch Contributor Insights and its use cases.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following topics and learn how to configure services practically:

Deriving operational intelligence from CloudWatch metrics
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