Observing your Amazon Aurora databases is now a whole lot easier. Instead of spending time setting up telemetry, building dashboards, and configuring alarms, you just open Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights and take a look. With no further setup, you can monitor the health of all of your Amazon Aurora MySQL and PostgreSQL instances in the selected Region: Each of the sections contains a wealth of detail and I’ll get to that in a moment (this may be the ultimate “but wait, there’s more” post). From this view, I can open the filter control on the left and filter the set of instances in a couple of different ways. For example, I can filter for all of the instances running Amazon…
Month: December 2024
New Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon OpenSearch Service launch an integrated analytics experience
Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces a new integrated analytics experience and zero-ETL integration between Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon OpenSearch Service. This integration simplifies log data analysis and visualization without data duplication, streamlining log management while reducing technical overhead and operational costs. CloudWatch Logs customers now have access to two additional query languages beyond CloudWatch Logs Insights QL, while OpenSearch customers can query CloudWatch logs in place without creating separate extract, transform, and load (ETL) pipelines. Organizations often need different analytics capabilities for their log data. Some teams prefer CloudWatch Logs for its scalability and simplicity in centralizing logs from all their systems, applications, and AWS services. Others require OpenSearch Service for advanced analytics and visualizations. Previously, integration between these…