As you develop applications in the cloud, modernize your infrastructure, or transition workloads, understanding observability is essential for achieving success. Monitoring and observability deliver critical operational insights into your workloads, which are vital for achieving operational excellence. The AWS Observability team will be at re:Invent 2022 to demonstrate how you can utilize observability within your organization.
Observability enables you to gain insights by examining your system through metrics, logs, and traces. This approach allows you to obtain a comprehensive view of your workloads and comprehend how and why your system meets its Service Level Objectives (SLOs) using Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Monitoring is fundamental to creating an observable system, offering insights into metrics such as reliability, availability, and performance, which are necessary for evaluating a system’s state via KPIs.
At re:Invent, the AWS Observability team will unveil new capabilities, share best practices, provide tips for developing your observability strategy, and conduct numerous demos. You’ll learn how to set up customized widgets in your Amazon CloudWatch dashboards and utilize the new Amazon EKS Observability Accelerator to gather telemetry from your containerized applications. Visit the AWS Observability kiosk in the Expo Hall to engage with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) from these sessions and pick up some swag!
Re:Invent will take place in Las Vegas, Nevada, from November 28 to December 2. If you are unable to attend, you can catch the breakout sessions on YouTube. For more information on AWS services and updates, check out this other blog post that dives deeper into the topic.
Sessions to Attend
- COP301 | Observability the Open-Source Way – Breakout session on Nov 28, 10:00 am, Caesars Forum (CSR) 121
Discover the challenges of instrumenting applications to gather monitoring signals like metrics, traces, and logs using vendor-specific SDKs. OpenTelemetry offers a flexible, unified SDK based on open-source specifications for instrumenting and collecting signals from applications and infrastructure. This session will explore how to instrument microservices using the OpenTelemetry SDK and configure collector pipelines for destinations like Prometheus, Amazon CloudWatch, and AWS X-Ray. Watch this session on YouTube. - COP223 | Data-Driven Application Performance Monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch – Chalk talk on Nov 28, 10:45 am, MGM Grand 104
Customers expect high-quality experiences when using your applications or websites. A good user experience enhances customer satisfaction and contributes to revenue growth. Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is crucial for understanding user interactions with your applications and identifying problem areas. This talk will guide you on using Amazon CloudWatch to establish APM with tools like Amazon CloudWatch RUM, CloudWatch Evidently, AWS X-Ray, and CloudWatch Synthetics. - COP201 | How Discovery Increased Operational Efficiency with AWS Observability – Breakout session on Nov 28, 11:30 am, Mandalay Bay (MND) Lagoon L
Learn how Discovery has transformed its observability platform by developing a comprehensive, centralized system on AWS. This platform manages the ingestion, processing, retention, analysis, and governance of operational data, including logs and metrics. Discover how to create a large-scale observability platform on AWS that enhances developer experiences, boosts flexibility, and promotes fiscal responsibility. Watch it on YouTube. - COP341 | Get to Know Your Application with OpenTelemetry and AWS X-Ray – Builders’ session on Nov 28, 12:15 pm, Wynn (WYN) Latour 7
Explore observability through the three pillars: traces, metrics, and logs. This builders’ session will focus on traces. Attendees will learn to deploy an Amazon EKS web-service application, capture traces, and send them to the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry Collector, which publishes trace data to AWS X-Ray. Bring your laptop for hands-on experience with AWS experts. - COP330 | Scale with Managed Open-Source Observability – Chalk talk on Nov 28, 2:30 pm, Caesars Forum (CSR) 110
As organizations expand, they require reliable application performance to manage increasing operational data. Join this chalk talk to learn about new AWS managed open-source services that help create a unified view across alerts and observability telemetry with Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, Amazon Managed Grafana, and AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry. Best practices will be discussed for building a scalable, high-availability open-source observability solution. - COP340 | Monitor End User Experience with Amazon CloudWatch – Builders’ session on Nov 29, 1:15 pm, Wynn (WYN) Latour 7
While monitoring applications from the server side is essential, understanding user experiences is equally important. This builders’ session will cover how to measure end-user experiences from both application and network perspectives and initiate automated actions for issue remediation. Bring your laptop for hands-on participation. - COP309 | Accelerate AWS Observability for Your Containers – Workshop on Nov 29, 2:00 pm, MGM Grand 117
Collecting observability signals from container environments can be challenging. This workshop offers hands-on experience with AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry, focusing on solutions like the Amazon EKS observability accelerator and the new Amazon ECS console experience. Learn to query and visualize signals from various data sources and explore advanced configurations such as Grafana teams and SAML integration. Bring your laptop to engage fully. - COP212 | Leadership Panel Discussion: Monitoring and Observability on AWS – Breakout session on Nov 29, 5:00 pm, The Venetian (VEN) Theatre
Join Nandini Ramani, VP of AWS Monitoring & Observability, with representatives from Fidelity Investments, United Airlines, and Federated Wireless for a discussion on their success stories with AWS observability solutions. They will share insights on fostering an observability culture, overcoming challenges, enhancing application performance, and improving customer experience. This is an excellent opportunity to see how these companies view the future of observability in their industries. Watch the panel on YouTube. - COP328 | Using Amazon EKS Observability Accelerator to Collect Signals on Amazon EKS – Chalk talk on Nov 29, 5:30 pm, Caesars Forum (CSR) Alliance 311
This session will provide insights into leveraging the Amazon EKS Observability Accelerator to gather vital signals for enhanced observability.
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