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AWS Observability Handbook

By : Phani Kumar Lingamallu, Fabio Braga de Oliveira
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AWS Observability Handbook

By: Phani Kumar Lingamallu, Fabio Braga de Oliveira

Overview of this book

As modern application architecture grows increasingly complex, identifying potential points of failure and measuring end user satisfaction, in addition to monitoring application availability, is key. This book helps you explore AWS observability tools that provide end-to-end visibility, enabling quick identification of performance bottlenecks in distributed applications. You’ll gain a holistic view of monitoring and observability on AWS, starting from observability basics using Amazon CloudWatch and AWS X-Ray to advanced ML-powered tools such as AWS DevOps Guru. As you progress, you'll learn about AWS-managed open source services such as AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) and AWS managed Prometheus, Grafana, and the ELK Stack. You’ll implement observability in EC2 instances, containers, Kubernetes, and serverless apps and grasp UX monitoring. With a fair mix of concepts and examples, this book helps you gain hands-on experience in implementing end-to-end AWS observability in your applications and navigating and troubleshooting performance issues with the help of use cases. You'll also learn best practices and guidelines, such as how observability relates to the Well-Architected Framework. By the end of this AWS book, you’ll be able to implement observability and monitoring in your apps using AWS’ native and managed open source tools in real-world scenarios.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Part 1: Getting Started with Observability on AWS
6
Part 2: Automated and Machine Learning-Powered Observability on AWS
11
Part 3: Open Source Managed Services on AWS
15
Part 4: Scaled Observability and Beyond

Setting up Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus and Grafana

The following figure illustrates the overall architecture of AMP and AMG and their interaction with other components:

Figure 10.2 – Overall architecture of AMP and AMG solutions and components

Let’s look at how to set up some of those components on AWS.

Setting up a Cloud9 development workspace

To have a standard integrated development environment (IDE) with the required set of tools, let’s create an AWS Cloud9 environment:

  1. Please click on the following link to start the deployment process:

https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/home#/stacks/quickcreate?templateURL=https://insiders-guide-observability-on-aws-book.s3.amazonaws.com/common/cloud9.yaml&stackName=InsidersGuideCloud9Chapter10

  1. After clicking on the link, you will be redirected to the AWS CloudFormation stack creation form. You can keep the default values and click on the checkbox...