Monitoring with AWS CloudWatch & X-Ray
90 Days of Cloud Challenge: Day 11
By Sandip Das · · 5 min read
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Hey — It's Sandip Das 👋
We should learn for deep visibility into infrastructure and application performance, enabling proactive monitoring, faster troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.
Together, they ensure reliability, observability, and smooth operations in modern distributed systems.
We should learn for deep visibility into infrastructure and application performance, enabling proactive monitoring, faster troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.
Together, they ensure reliability, observability, and smooth operations in modern distributed systems.
📚 Key Learnings
- Understand the role of monitoring and observability in AWS.
- Learn Amazon CloudWatch capabilities:Metrics (CPU, memory, latency, custom metrics).Logs (application, system, Lambda, API Gateway).Alarms and dashboards.
- Explore AWS X-Ray for distributed tracing and request flow analysis.
🧠 Learn here
Monitoring and observability are critical pillars in modern cloud-native architectures.
In AWS, they ensure that applications, infrastructure, and services remain reliable, scalable, and performant.
While monitoring provides insights into the
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Topics: AWS CloudWatch, AWS X-RAY, Community, CloudOps, 90 Days of Cloud