Last Updated: November 21, 2025
Monitoring Stack
| Service | Use |
|---|---|
CloudWatch
|
Metrics, alarms, dashboards |
X-Ray
|
Distributed tracing |
CloudTrail
|
API audit logs |
Commands
aws cloudwatch put-metric-alarm
Create threshold alarms
aws cloudwatch get-metric-data
Plot custom metrics
xray batch-get-traces
Inspect slow requests
Best Practices
Monitor error rates + latency, correlate traces with logs, and alert on anomaly detection.
💡 Pro Tip:
Tag all resources, define CloudWatch dashboards per service, and alert before SLAs break.