Category: Management Tools

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 […]

If your engineering organization uses AI coding agents like Claude Code, usage is likely growing faster than your ability to track it. Token consumption, cost per team, and developer productivity are questions that existing dashboards don’t answer, because the telemetry never made it to your observability backend. With Amazon CloudWatch OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) in General […]

As organizations scale their AI and machine learning workloads on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), GPU instances often represent the largest portion of compute costs. Without granular visibility into how these resources are consumed, teams struggle to attribute costs accurately. Consider a shared EKS cluster where Team A (Research) runs experimental ML models on […]

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 […]

Introduction Robust patch management is essential for maintaining system security, reliability, and compliance across your IT infrastructure. AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager provides a full-featured patching solution, enabling you to automate the deployment of operating system updates to managed nodes across AWS accounts, on-premises, and multicloud environments. However, as your organization scales across dozens or […]