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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)
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Part 1: Getting Started with Observability on AWS
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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

Be Well-Architected for Operational Excellence

In the previous chapter, we discussed using observability services from AWS to help you accelerate your cloud adoption journey. In this chapter, we will examine using the Well-Architected Framework for observability workloads, such as CloudWatch metrics, Logs, X-Ray traces, and open source managed services from AWS. We will also learn about best practices according to the AWS Well-Architected Framework pillars and about tools from AWS and the community that can help with adopting best practices for optimizing observability workloads and achieving the desired business outcomes.

Observability is one of the important parts of achieving the Well-Architected Framework for cloud workloads. Designing an observability toolset or observability solution on AWS that adheres to the best practices outlined in the the Well-Architected Framework requires consideration of multiple aspects.

In this chapter, we will understand how to apply the Well...