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Category: Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus

How to reduce Istio sidecar metric cardinality with Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus

How to reduce Istio sidecar metric cardinality with Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus

The complexity of distributed systems has grown significantly, making monitoring and observability essential for application and infrastructure reliability. As organizations adopt microservice-based architectures and large-scale distributed systems, they face the challenge of managing an increasing volume of telemetry data, particularly high metric cardinality in systems like Prometheus. To address this, many are turning to service […]

Choice Hotels adopts Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus for operational excellence and cost efficiency

This post was co-written with Stephen Cihak, Senior Director , Abhiram Madadi, Principal Engineer and Gopi Akula, Senior Manager at Choice Hotels Who is Choice Hotels? Choice Hotels International is one of the largest lodging franchisors in the world. A challenger in the upscale segment and a leader in midscale and extended stay, Choice has […]

Enhance observability for Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server using Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus and Amazon Managed Grafana

In this blog post, you will learn how to improve observability on your Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server database. You will configure metric exporters and send those metrics to Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, to be visualized in Amazon Managed Grafana. By utilizing both Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, and Amazon Managed Grafana, you […]

Monitor your Databricks Clusters with AWS managed open-source Services

Organizations rely heavily on cloud-based data processing and analytics platforms in today’s data-driven world to unlock valuable insights and make informed decisions. Databricks, a unified analytics platform, has emerged as a popular choice due to its seamless integration with Apache Spark, and its ability to efficiently handle large-scale data processing tasks. Many customers have implemented […]

Gain actionable business insights with monitoring of Amazon MSK with Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus and Amazon Managed Grafana

Gain actionable business insights with monitoring of Amazon MSK with Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus and Amazon Managed Grafana

Introduction Monitoring is a critical aspect of maintaining the health and performance of any distributed system. In the case of Apache Kafka-based applications, configuring robust monitoring on kafka clusters becomes more crucial due to the real-time nature of data processing. This blog is intended for individuals or organizations utilizing Apache Kafka-based applications, specifically those facing […]

Migrating to Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus with the Prometheus Operator

The Prometheus Operator allows cluster administrators to manage Prometheus clusters running in Kubernetes. It makes it easy to deploy and manage Prometheus via native Kubernetes components. In this blog post, I will demonstrate how you can deploy Prometheus via the Prometheus Operator, and how you can easily migrate your monitoring workloads to take advantage of […]

Announcing AWS CDK Observability Accelerator for Amazon EKS

Today we are happy to announce the all-new AWS CDK Observability Accelerator – a set of opinionated modules to help you set up observability for your AWS environments with AWS Native services and AWS-managed observability services such as Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, Amazon Managed Grafana, AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) and Amazon CloudWatch. AWS […]

Using Curated Packages and AWS managed Open Source services to observe your On Premises Kubernetes environment

Customers who run containerized workloads on Kubernetes clusters on their hardware use Amazon EKS Anywhere (Amazon EKS-A). Customers look for prescriptive guidance for the observability of their modern applications running on EKS-A. Using AWS-managed open-source services such as AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT), Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, and Amazon Managed Grafana helps customers to offload […]

Using Open Source Grafana Operator on your Kubernetes cluster to manage Amazon Managed Grafana

Introduction Kubernetes APIs are robust and its control loop mechanism allows us to control the state of resources that are even outside of Kubernetes environments. Customers have shifted their focus towards workload gravity and rely on Kubernetes-native controllers to deploy and manage the lifecycle of external resources such as Cloud resources. We have seen customers […]

Build Cloud Operations skills using the new AWS Observability Training

Full-stack observability at AWS includes AWS-native, Application Performance Monitoring (APM), and open-source solutions, giving you the ability to understand what is happening across your technology stack at any time. AWS Observability lets you collect, correlate, aggregate, and analyze telemetry in your network, infrastructure, and applications in the cloud, hybrid, or on-premises environments so you can gain […]