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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
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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

Overview of the Observability Landscape on AWS

We spent the previous chapter understanding the requirement of observability in the modern application landscape and the building blocks of observability. In this chapter, we will go through various services that can be used to observe and manage your application landscape available on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

AWS offers several services that can be used to observe and manage your overall application landscape:

  • Infrastructure monitoring: Amazon CloudWatch, or simply CloudWatch, metrics and logs will support infrastructure monitoring for components such as VMs, containers, operating systems (OSes), and applications.
  • Distributed tracing: AWS X-Ray provides support in distributed tracing and profiling for your application. AWS X-Ray support distributed tracing for applications written in the .NET, Java, Node.js, Python, Ruby, and Go programming languages.
  • AWS services vended monitoring: AWS services natively send metrics...