Category: Amazon Managed Grafana

High-performance applications with unlimited throughput capabilities pose significant monitoring challenges, especially when tracking real-time metrics, utilization, and throttling events across distributed database workloads. Near real-time visibility into metrics is crucial for application performance and cost optimization. AWS allows you to seamlessly integrate multiple services to tackle these operational complexities. With Amazon DynamoDB, you can build […]

As organizations continue to expand their cloud infrastructure by connecting multiple Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPC) across accounts and regions, the complexity of managing their network environment increases. AWS Transit Gateway has emerged as a powerful solution to simplify this complexity by providing a centralized hub for secure communication between Amazon VPCs, on-premises systems, and […]

Security is “job zero” at AWS. It’s crucial to gain deeper insights into your AWS infrastructure’s security posture to respond quickly to threats. The ability to centrally monitor and visualize the security findings make it easier for you to identify any security threats or gaps and also keep the principle of least privilege in focus. […]

This post is co-written with Cody Rioux, Staff Engineer at Stripe and Michael Cowgill, Staff engineer at Stripe Stripe powers online and in-person payment processing and provides financial solutions for businesses of all sizes. Stripe operates a sophisticated microservice environment built on top of AWS. In this blog post we will cover the journey and […]

This post is co-written with Jacob Rickerd, Principal Security Engineer at Attentive. The post walks through an example dashboard that Attentive, an AI-powered mobile marketing platform, uses for resource inventory, serving as a starting point for you to build comprehensive dashboards tailored to your environment and tag policies. Attentive is the AI-powered SMS and email […]

Managing and operating monitoring systems for containerized applications can be a significant operational burden for customers such as metrics collection. As container environments scale, customers have to split metric collection across multiple collectors, right-size the collectors to handle peak loads, and continuously manage, patch, secure, and operationalize these collectors. This overhead can detract from an […]

AWS has been named as a Challenger in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms, previously known as Gartner Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Magic Quadrant. This report assesses vendors based on their Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. Compared to the previous year, AWS has moved up higher on the Ability […]

Observability is a critical aspect for maintaining the health and performance of any distributed system. Organizations rely on data from diverse sources, including AWS services as well as third-party ISVs (independent software vendor) to gain insights into their system’s health. Establishing secure connections to these diverse data sources enables visualization and analysis of observability data […]

Introduction Keeping a watchful eye on your Kubernetes infrastructure is crucial for ensuring optimal performance, identifying bottlenecks, and troubleshooting issues promptly. In the ever-evolving world of cloud-native applications, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) has emerged as a popular choice for deploying and managing containerized workloads. However, monitoring Kubernetes clusters can be challenging due to their […]

We are excited to announce support for Grafana version 10.4 in Amazon Managed Grafana. You can now run Grafana version 10.4 on a secure, scalable, highly available, and fully managed service. This update gives you access to key features introduced in the open-source Grafana versions 9.5 to 10.4, including Correlations, Subfolders, Transformations redesign, and new visualization panels. It […]