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AWS re:Invent 2023 - [LAUNCH] Application monitoring for modern workloads (COP351)

Summary

Andreas Blomqvist, a senior product manager at AWS, introduced Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals, a new feature for application performance monitoring.
Igor Sedukhin, general manager of application observability at AWS, provided a detailed demo of Application Signals.
Anthony Giles from JP Morgan Chase shared a customer story highlighting the use of AWS CloudWatch and site reliability best practices.
The session covered the challenges of application monitoring and how Application Signals addresses them by providing pre-built dashboards, automatic service discovery, golden metrics, service-level objectives, and integrated experiences.
Application Signals is released in public preview with support for Java applications.
The demo showcased a day in the life of a service operator using Application Signals to handle incidents and inspect services, demonstrating the ease of identifying and resolving issues.

Application Signals aims to simplify the monitoring of modern applications composed of numerous microservices by automating the discovery of services and providing pre-built dashboards.
The feature introduces service-level objectives to help operators assess their goals and prioritize responses before major incidents occur.
Application Signals offers a standard set of telemetry, known as golden metrics, which includes volume of requests, latency, errors, and faults for every service, operation, and dependency.
The integration with AWS CloudWatch and other AWS services allows for a unified view of application performance, infrastructure, and user experience.
The public preview of Application Signals is initially available for Java applications, indicating a phased rollout for other languages and frameworks.
The customer story from JP Morgan Chase emphasizes the importance of observability and service-level objectives in maintaining reliable systems and handling large-scale operations.
The session highlighted AWS's commitment to providing tools that align with best practices for operating services efficiently and resiliently, with a focus on reducing the total cost of ownership.