You're reading from AWS Observability Handbook Monitor, trace, and alert your cloud applications with AWS' myriad observability tools

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804616710

Length 504 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

DevOps

Authors (2):

Fabio Oliveira

Phani Kumar Lingamallu

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Getting Started with Observability on AWS

2. Chapter 1: Observability 101 FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Overview of the Observability Landscape on AWS

4. Chapter 3: Gathering Operational Data and Alerting Using Amazon CloudWatch

5. Chapter 4: Implementing Distributed Tracing Using AWS X-Ray

6. Part 2: Automated and Machine Learning-Powered Observability on AWS

7. Chapter 5: Insights into Operational Data with CloudWatch

8. Chapter 6: Observability for Containerized Applications on AWS

9. Chapter 7: Observability for Serverless Applications on AWS

10. Chapter 8: End User Experience Monitoring on AWS

11. Part 3: Open Source Managed Services on AWS

12. Chapter 9: Collecting Metrics and Traces Using OpenTelemetry

13. Chapter 10: Deploying and Configuring an Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus

14. Chapter 11: Deploying the Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana Stack Using Amazon OpenSearch Service

15. Part 4: Scaled Observability and Beyond

16. Chapter 12: Augmenting the Human Operator with Amazon DevOps Guru

17. Chapter 13: Observability Best Practices at Scale

18. Chapter 14: Be Well-Architected for Operational Excellence

19. Chapter 15: The Role of Observability in the Cloud Adoption Framework

20. Index

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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...

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