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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When you launch an EC2 instance, whether Linux or Windows, CloudWatch will provide metrics related to the instance, such as CPU, network, and disk metrics, by default. The automated dashboard in Figure 3.2 provides the default AWS vended metrics provided by CloudWatch as part of the EC2 instance built with no additional configuration.

You can view the automatic dashboard generated by AWS CloudWatch by navigating to CloudWatch –> Dashboard –> Automatic Dashboard –> EC2. This should display the default AWS vended metrics provided by CloudWatch, as seen in the following screenshot:

Figure 3.2 – Automated dashboard generated by CloudWatch for default AWS vended EC2 metrics

Building upon the default vended metrics provided by AWS, there are certain metrics that are only visible to the guest operating system, such as memory metrics and page file utilization...

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