AWS observability
Amazon CloudWatch
Problems solved
- Metrics and logs scattered across services with no unified dashboards
- CloudWatch alarms that fire too late or too often to be trusted
- Missing SLO signals for critical AWS workloads
- Log retention and ingestion costs growing without review
- On-call runbooks that do not match actual alarm behavior
Technologies
- Amazon CloudWatch
- CloudWatch Logs
- CloudWatch Alarms
- X-Ray
- Metric filters
- Dashboards
Outcomes
- Actionable AWS alerting
- Unified operational dashboards
- Lower noise during incidents
- Cost-aware log retention