Key AWS offerings for monitoring and observability

AWS offers a variety of native services that enable customers to implement end-to-end observability solutions for their application workloads. All three pillars of observability are well covered. CloudWatch is AWS’s primary observability platform, which is a suite of different solutions that address customer needs around logs and metrics collection. For traces, AWS offers the X-Ray service, which makes it very easy to trace individual requests or workflows in your applications.

Interestingly, there are also quite a lot of customers in the observability space that have been working with open source solutions and would like to extend their existing implementations in the cloud. AWS offers managed solutions for Prometheus and Grafana, which we will cover in a lot more detail during the hands-on exercise, later in this chapter. Furthermore, AWS has been quite active in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s (CNCF’...