AWS Observe and Operate: Monitor Your Cloud Infrastructure and Modern Applications

Intermediate

Evolve and scale your observability to improve insights and performance

It’s no longer a question of whether your organization is moving to the cloud, but rather how fast you can move while ensuring security, visibility, control, and safety. If you’re migrating to the cloud or already operating in the cloud, you want a secure and efficient way to manage and monitor your infrastructure and applications in the cloud, on premises, or in hybrid or multicloud environments. Join us for the second of three half-day online events in the AWS Observe and Operate series designed to showcase solutions for your observability and operations needs.

The pressures to keep systems up and running with minimal disruption are increasing while applications, infrastructure, and services are being deployed at ever-increasing rates. The dynamic nature of modern applications and architectures is producing an explosion of siloed data and telemetry from multiple sources. Observability and operations professionals are being challenged to maintain SLOs and SLAs to achieve availability, reliability, and performance.

This second event in the AWS Observe and Operate series will show how you can get started implementing observability at your organization—from cloud native to managed open source solutions. You will learn best practices for monitoring modern infrastructures and applications to lower mean time to resolution (MTTR), maintain availability, and improve performance for your end users. Join this event and get your burning questions on observability answered!

What you’ll learn and how you can apply it

Understand how you can use AWS Observability to achieve your business and operational goals
Learn how you can leverage AWS Observability to improve system performance, enhance customer experience, and optimize cost
Get best practices on setting up your observability

This live event is for you because...

You’re a cloud engineer or architect responsible for managing and maintaining infrastructure and applications in your AWS, hybrid, or multicloud environment.
You are responsible for monitoring systems and applications to ensure they run smoothly, and for identifying and resolving incidents quickly to minimize downtime and prevent disruptions.
You want to improve MTTR, maintain high availability, and improve performance across your applications.

Prerequisites

Foundational knowledge of cloud and/or on-premises infrastructure and applications
Come with your questions
Have a pen and paper or computer handy to capture notes, insights, and inspiration

Recommended follow-up:

Read Observability Engineering (book)
Take AWS Monitoring Strategies (on-demand course)
Read Cloud Native Monitoring (report)
Read Infrastructure Monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch (book)
Read Understanding Log Analytics at Scale (report)
Read Learning Modern Linux (book)
Take One Observability Workshop (AWS workshop)
Take AWS Observability Skill Builder (AWS course)
Read AWS Observability overview (AWS resources)

Schedule

The time frames are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing.

Brian Dennehy: Introduction (5 minutes) - 8:00am PT | 11:00am ET | 3:00pm UTC/GMT

Join Brian Dennehy, general manager of AWS monitoring and observability, to learn how to redefine your observability journey.

Toshal Dudhwala: Why Observability Is Critical for Your Organization (25 minutes) - 8:05am PT | 11:05am ET | 3:05pm UTC/GMT

Why does observability matter? Learn what an observability solution can do for you. An observable system is more reliable, helps you understand your system, and enables faster resolution of issues. We'll show you what you need in your observability solution, including comprehensive monitoring, powerful analytics, anomaly detection, flexible visualization, efficient collaboration, and easy scalability.

Surbhi Dangi: Build Better Customer Experiences with Observability (25 minutes) - 8:30am PT | 11:30am ET | 3:30pm UTC/GMT

Modern applications generate exponential amounts of operational data. Surbhi Dangi shows you how to take control of your end-user experience with application performance monitoring (APM), which gives you deep insights into your application layer and helps you understand your end-customer experience. She’ll also help you understand how observability can improve the operational efficiency, health, and security of your applications and how you can use your application performance to drive your business outcomes.

Ashok Swaminathan: Get Actionable Insights Using Log Analytics (25 minutes) - 8:55am PT | 11:55am ET | 3:55pm UTC/GMT

AWS Logs is the easiest way to gain insight into the performance and compliance of your applications and systems. Centralized logging on AWS helps organizations collect, analyze, and display logs in a single dashboard. It consolidates, manages, and analyzes log files from multiple sources—including audit logs for access, configuration changes, and billing events from multiple accounts. Ashok Swaminathan shows how you can set up log groups, streams, and retention policies, and ingest complex, high-cardinality application data in logs to generate actionable metrics.
Break (5 minutes)

Graham Coleman: Monitor Modern Applications—The Cloud Native Way (25 minutes) - 9:25am PT | 12:25pm ET |4:25pm UTC/GMT

The dynamic nature of modern applications and architectures is producing an explosion of siloed data and telemetry from multiple sources, so collecting and analyzing observability signals can be a challenging task. Graham Coleman helps you get started with AWS-native observability solutions, shares best practices to monitor modern infrastructures and applications—and shows you how you can query and visualize across your signals and accounts to improve performance, reliability, and time to resolution.

Marc Chene: Monitor Modern Applications—The Managed Open Source Way (25 minutes) - 9:50am PT | 12:50pm ET | 4:50pm UTC/GMT

Modernizing infrastructure and applications can bring both benefits and challenges. Open source observability tools are popular for their flexibility and low costs, but they can be complex and time-consuming to customize and maintain. A fully managed open source monitoring solution can provide the benefits of open source tools without the need for extensive deployment and management. With AWS managed open source solutions, organizations can easily scale monitoring capabilities, improve performance, and reduce costs. Marc Chene shows you how you can collect, export, and query telemetry data, and quickly set up dashboards to identify patterns or issues.

Kyle Mahone: Get Started with Observability (25 minutes) - 10:15am PT | 1:15pm ET | 5:15pm UTC/GMT

Want to get started on your observability solution? Whether you’re setting it up for the first time or looking to enhance your monitoring, Kyle Mahone shows you how to select the right observability tool for your needs and how to set up monitoring. Regardless of your underlying technology stack, these best practices will help you monitor, improve, and scale your applications and services.

Jonathan Hassell: Closing Remarks (5 minutes) - 10:40am PT | 1:40pm ET | 5:40pm UTC/GMT

Jonathan closes out today’s event.

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