AWS Monitoring and Logging¶

Cloud Native Platforms¶

AWS¶

Managed Observability¶

• (2026) Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — AWS fully-managed metric service designed around open-source Cortex core architecture. Automatically scales telemetry storage, ingestion, and query resources in secure enterprise environments.

Cloud Providers hyperscalers¶

AWS (1)¶

AWS Cloudwatch¶

• (2026) Now on Amazon CloudWatch Omni: collaborative AI-powered observability for your applications 🌟 [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Technical documentation and implementation reference for Now on Amazon CloudWatch Omni: collaborative AI-powered observability for your applications covering AWS Cloudwatch in AWS (aws.amazon.com).
• (2026) Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Omni: AI-powered observability for generative AI and agentic workloads 🌟 [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Technical documentation and implementation reference for Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Omni: AI-powered observability for generative AI and agentic workloads covering AWS Cloudwatch in AWS (aws.amazon.com).
• dzone: Optimize AWS Costs With CloudWatch's Advanced Metrics, Dashboards,' and Alerts [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Technical documentation and implementation reference for dzone: Optimize AWS Costs With CloudWatch's Advanced Metrics, Dashboards,' and Alerts covering AWS Cloudwatch in AWS (dzone.com).

Error Tracking And Performance Monitoring¶

• (2026) Sentry ⭐ 45643 🌟 [DE FACTO STANDARD] — Technical documentation and implementation reference for Sentry covering Error Tracking and Performance Monitoring in AWS (github.com).

Metrics¶

• logz.io: A Guide to Monitoring AWS Lambda Metrics with Prometheus & Logz.io [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Technical documentation and implementation reference for logz.io: A Guide to Monitoring AWS Lambda Metrics with Prometheus & Logz.io covering Metrics in AWS (logz.io).
• logz.io: What are AWS EC2 Instances? A Tutorial for EC2 Metrics Shipping' with Logz.io [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Technical documentation and implementation reference for logz.io: What are AWS EC2 Instances? A Tutorial for EC2 Metrics Shipping' with Logz.io covering Metrics in AWS (logz.io).

Service Topology And Dependency Mapping¶

• (2026) Introducing Radar Researcher: An AI tool for exploring Internet data in plain language 🌟 [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Technical documentation and implementation reference for Introducing Radar Researcher: An AI tool for exploring Internet data in plain language covering Service Topology and Dependency Mapping in AWS (blog.cloudflare.com).
• (2026) Is your domain using post-quantum encryption? Now you can see for yourself 🌟 [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Technical documentation and implementation reference for Is your domain using post-quantum encryption? Now you can see for yourself covering Service Topology and Dependency Mapping in AWS (blog.cloudflare.com).

Observability and Monitoring¶

Case Studies¶

Enterprise Scale¶

• (2021) How BT uses Amazon CloudWatch to monitor millions of devices [ADVANCED LEVEL] [CASE STUDY] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Deep-dives into an enterprise architecture deployed by BT utilizing Amazon CloudWatch to ingest, structure, and analyze telemetry streams originating from millions of physical client network units globally.

Cloudwatch¶

Alerting Systems¶

• (2021) Extending and exploring alarm history in Amazon CloudWatch – part 2 [SQL CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Investigates strategies to maintain and analyze deep historical records of CloudWatch alarm states over multi-year thresholds using Kinesis Firehose, S3 object storage targets, and Athena SQL queries.

Dashboards¶

• (2020) Amazon CloudWatch Dashboards now supports sharing [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Announces external sharing support for AWS CloudWatch Dashboards, permitting secure read-only console visualizations to key stakeholders outside the immediate AWS organization footprint.

Prometheus Integration¶

• (2020) Amazon CloudWatch now monitors Prometheus metrics from Container environments [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Documents Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights' ability to ingest, index, and visualize standard Prometheus application metrics directly from Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) cluster deployments.

Enterprise Observability¶

Elastic Stack¶

• (2022) elastic.co: Elastic and AWS: Accelerating the cloud migration journey [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Explores integrations between Elastic Cloud and AWS native logging solutions. Facilitates high-velocity log ingest, distributed tracing across container environments, and simplified security event monitoring across cloud instances.

Legacy Systems¶

Self-hosted¶

• (2018) github: Steps I used to install Nagios in the cloud [SHELL CONTENT] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 [DE FACTO STANDARD] [LEGACY] — A historical walkthrough illustrating legacy installations of the Nagios monitoring framework inside static virtual instances. Outlines core process definitions, alerting rules, and manual configuration management.

Managed Services¶

Announcements¶

• (2021) infoq.com: AWS Introduces Amazon Managed Service for Grafana and Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Architectural breakdown of AWS's entry into cloud-native managed open-source telemetry tools. Reviews integration advantages, storage strategies, and price efficiencies compared to self-hosted instances on EC2.

Grafana¶

• (2024) Amazon Managed Service for Grafana [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Managed visualization console offering direct enterprise integrations with SSO and IAM setups. Allows telemetry aggregation from diverse cloud datasources (S3, Prometheus, CloudWatch, Opensearch) under unified dynamic views.

Security and Governance¶

Cloud Governance¶

Compliance and Audit¶

• (2022) How to use AWS Config and CloudTrail to find who made changes to a resource [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Demonstrates how to correlate events from AWS Config history with CloudTrail api audit logs. Provides an audit mechanism to pinpoint precise user identities, timestamps, and parameters related to unauthorized resource alterations.

Cloud Security Posture¶

Automated Auditing¶

• (2024) github: ElectricEye ⭐ 1043 [PYTHON CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 [DE FACTO STANDARD] — An automated cloud security assessment framework designed to continually monitor AWS environments for configuration drift, vulnerabilities, and deviations from industry standards. Outputs findings directly to AWS Security Hub.

Service Discovery¶

AWS Cloud Map¶

Health Checks¶

• (2022) Custom Health Check: HealthCheckCustomConfig [DOCUMENTATION] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Official reference guide for Cloud Map API's custom health checks. Explains dynamic service discovery patterns for serverless workloads where traditional load balancer health checks are inapplicable.

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