Overview of native observability services in AWS

Let’s start by understanding the AWS-native observability services in AWS, which are powered by Amazon CloudWatch. Amazon CloudWatch is a cloud-native monitoring and observability solution that provides comprehensive functionality in terms of metrics, logs, traces, dashboarding, alarms, real user monitoring, synthetic monitoring, and observability tools for over 200 AWS services, including serverless technologies such as AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate. Amazon CloudWatch is used to monitor more than 6,000 trillion metric observations, ingests more than 3.5 Exabytes of logs, and when combined with EventBridge, triggers more than 32 trillion events per month.

CloudWatch delivers actionable insights by collecting logs, metrics, and events, providing a single pane of glass for all applications and services on AWS and on-premises. You can configure alarms and be notified when metrics are outside the desired range, visualize logs and...