AWS Cloud & Application Monitoring For cloud observability, troubleshooting, performance optimisation, and proactive alerting, AWS Cloud Monitoring is crucial. Infrastructure, apps, security, and user experience are all covered by the extensive stack of monitoring services that AWS provides. |
Core Monitoring & Observability

Amazon CloudWatch
The main monitoring service on AWS.

AWS X-Ray
Distributed tracing system for debugging and analyzing performance.

Amazon DevOps Guru
Machine Learning (ML)-powered service that detects operational issues proactively.
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Security Monitoring

Amazon GuardDuty
Intelligent threat detection using machine learning.

AWS CloudTrail
Logs all API activity in your AWS environment.

Amazon Detective
Investigate suspicious activities using visual graphs and relationships.

AWS Security Hub
Centralized view of security findings from GuardDuty, Macie, Inspector, etc.
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Network & DNS Monitoring

Amazon Route 53 Health Checks
Monitors the health of your endpoints and services.

AWS VPC Flow Logs
Good for network monitoring, troubleshooting, and security analysis.
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Application Performance Monitoring

AWS CloudWatch Application Insights
Automatically sets up dashboards, monitors logs, and detects anomalies.

AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT)
Collects and exports telemetry data (metrics, traces, logs).
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