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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

Gathering Operational Data and Alerting Using Amazon CloudWatch

We spent the whole of the last chapter understanding the various services available on AWS to observe our applications, using cloud-native and open source observability solutions to observe and monitor the compute, microservices, and serverless components. We categorized the services into layers and provided a brief description of the services in each layer. Also, we gained an understanding of the functionalities of those services and when you should adopt those services in general. Those services will be discussed as we progress, and we will practically demonstrate them.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following topics:

  • Overview of CloudWatch metrics and logs
  • Deployment and configuration of the CloudWatch agent in an EC2 instance
  • Overview of CloudWatch alarms and dashboard
  • Setup of CloudWatch alarms and dashboard
  • Overview of Amazon EventBridge
  • Setup rules for state change events...