Category: Amazon CloudWatch

Teams running hybrid or multi-cloud estates collect telemetry from proprietary appliances, on-premises Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools, home-grown agents, and Apache Kafka streams that all must be parsed, normalized, and routed before it’s useful. Amazon CloudWatch lets you collect logs from 60+ AWS services, 20+ third-party tools, and your own applications using CloudWatch pipelines, HTTP […]

Operations teams managing AWS infrastructure must resolve issues quickly while maintaining thorough documentation and following best practices. Traditional workflows create bottlenecks where valuable engineering time is consumed by administrative tasks rather than actual problem-solving, directly impacting system availability and customer experience. Kiro CLI removes this administrative overhead. Kiro CLI is an AI-powered command-line assistant for […]

Introduction Welcome to the latest edition of This Month in AWS Observability, featuring what’s new across Amazon CloudWatch and AI-driven operations this June! Native OpenTelemetry metrics with PromQL querying is now generally available in CloudWatch, 23 new Logs Insights commands launched for deeper statistical and structured analysis, Session Replay now in CloudWatch RUM, and AWS […]

Deploy an OpenTelemetry gateway on Amazon EKS, export metrics to CloudWatch over native OTLP, and monitor the pipeline’s own health with PromQL dashboards and alarms.

Your alarm fires at 2 AM. You grab your phone, squint at the notification, and see: “ALARM: my-service-alarm has transitioned to ALARM state.” No context. No application. No hint about which of your 200 instances is the problem, or whether it even matters. I’ve been there. We’ve all been there. Alarm frustration often comes from […]

TL;DR What if you could go from raw Amazon S3 server access logs to a complete security dashboard without building a custom pipeline? The dashboard below is deployed using the CloudFormation template provided in this post. Figure 1: Amazon S3 Server Access Logs Security, Compliance & Audit Dashboard Until now, getting security visibility from Amazon […]

Teams working with distributed applications accumulate logs across multiple log groups, including application logs, access logs, and audit trails. When something needs investigating, an engineer opens the console and starts writing queries from scratch. The same query gets written differently by different people. The results lack context because the log event does not contain who […]

Editor’s note (July 2026): This post has been updated to reflect the launch of Amazon CloudWatch Coding Agent Insights, a purpose-built experience for monitoring AI coding agent usage. The dashboard deployment section now references Coding Agent Insights for CloudWatch users, with the custom PromQL dashboard retained for Amazon Managed Grafana. If your engineering organization uses […]

If you run Kubernetes or microservices workloads on AWS, you probably track latency, request durations, and other value distributions with Prometheus histograms. To do that with classic histograms, you predefine a set of bucket boundaries, and Prometheus emits one time series per boundary plus a sum and a count. A single latency histogram with 20 […]

Welcome to the first edition of the AWS Observability ICYMI (In Case You Missed It) recap! The first five months of 2026 has been transformational for AWS observability with over 40 launches across Amazon CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray, Amazon Managed Grafana, and Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus. Two major themes defined this period: OpenTelemetry as the […]