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AWS observability: AWS monitoring best practices for resiliency

Dynatrace

Visibility into system activity and behavior has become increasingly critical given organizations’ widespread use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other serverless platforms. These challenges make AWS observability a key practice for building and monitoring cloud-native applications. What is AWS observability?

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Build and operate multicloud FaaS with enhanced, intelligent end-to-end observability

Dynatrace

As companies accelerate digital transformation, they implement modern cloud technologies like serverless functions. According to Flexera , serverless functions are the number one technology evaluated by enterprises and one of the top five cloud technologies in use at enterprises. What are serverless applications?

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So many bad takes?—?What is there to learn from the Prime Video microservices to monolith story

Adrian Cockcroft

Then they tried to scale it to cope with high traffic and discovered that some of the state transitions in their step functions were too frequent, and they had some overly chatty calls between AWS lambda functions and S3. When you are exploring how to construct something, building a prototype in a few days or weeks is a good approach.

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Monitoring Serverless Applications

Dotcom-Montior

Serverless. Well, to start, serverless, or serverless computing , doesn’t really mean there aren’t servers involved, because there are, rather it refers to the fact that the responsibility of having to manage, scale, provision, maintain, etc., Benefits of a Serverless Model. Disadvantages of a Serverless Model.

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Platform Engineering Teams Done Right…

Adrian Cockcroft

The virtualization and networking platform could be datacenter based, with something like VMware, or cloud based using one of the cloud providers such as AWS EC2. Above that there’s a deployment platform such as Kubernetes or AWS Lambda. The introduction of containers brought everyone a similar but lighter weight mechanism.

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Reducing PostgreSQL Costs in the Cloud

Percona

Figure 1: PMM Home Dashboard From the Amazon Web Services (AWS) documentation , an instance is considered over-provisioned when at least one specification of your instance, such as CPU, memory, or network, can be sized down while still meeting the performance requirements of your workload and no specification is under-provisioned.

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Breaking data silos: Liquid Reply’s journey to custom API observability with OpenTelemetry and Dynatrace

Dynatrace

Data is proliferating in separate silos from containers and Kubernetes to open source APIs and software to serverless compute services, such as AWS and Azure. Solving custom API observability with OpenTelemetry Because the bank group needed complete coverage for all API traffic, it wanted to standardize tracing on all API calls.