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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 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...