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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

Navigating the AWS X-Ray console

In this section, I will give you a guided tour of X-Ray. You can just read this section, but I strongly advise you to follow the same steps as me so that you can easily understand how the new tool works:

  1. If you are accessing the X-Ray console for the first time, you can search for it and click on the service icon or access it directly via https://console.aws.amazon.com/xray/home. You will see a getting started page, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 4.1 – AWS X-Ray start page, first access

Important Note

At the time of writing, the X-Ray product team was about to release a new UI for the service, so you will see a message like the one shown in Figure 4.2 asking whether you would like to use the new interface. Eventually, the product team will roll out its final version, and all customers will use the new UI, so this message won’t exist. To keep this book as up-to-date as possible for longer...