Enhancing DevOps Practices with Amazon CloudWatch Application Performance Monitoring Rob Sable AWS Communtity Day Midwest 2023

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Rob Sable
Sr Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services
Enhancing DevOps Practices
With Amazon CloudWatch Application Performance Monitoring
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Agenda
Introduction
Defining DevOps
Defining Application Performance Monitoring
5 DevOps Foundations for Success
CloudWatch APM Tools
Next Steps
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What is DevOps?
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DevOps and AWS
Philosophies Practices Tools
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DevOps Philosophies
• Remove barriers
• Optimize productivity
• Reliable operations
• Frequent communication
• Full Ownership
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DevOps Practices
• Automate and streamline
• Decouple complex systems
• Small, frequent updates
• Manage infrastructure as code
• Log and monitor performance
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DevOps Tooling
• AWS Code Pipeline
• AWS Lambda
• AWS CloudFormation
• Amazon CloudWatch
• AWS X-Ray
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What is Application
Performance Monitoring?
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Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
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APM provides the ability to monitor the end-to-end customer
experience from the client through the application stack.
• Application Discovery, Tracing, and Diagnostics (ADTD)
• Front-end monitoring, Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM)
• Analytics, Artificial Intelligence (AIOps)

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Multiple layers of observability and APM
Digital Experience
Optimize key business transactions with a complete view of the user journey
Follow requests from real user sessions to back-end services and databases
Network
End-to-end visibility into the internet performance of your application
Diagnose internet and transit providers issues impacting your applications
Application
Analyze and optimize complex distributed application environments at scale
Troubleshoot transactions steps to determine performance bottlenecks
Infrastructure
Visibility across the health of servers, resources, and computes
Pinpoint error and latency outliers with out-of-the-box service dashboards
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Five Foundational
DevOps Principles
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Foundational DevOps Principles
1. Gain alignment by focusing on the customer.
2. Leverage automation to achieve faster results.
3. Increase transparency and improve communication.
4. Build a culture of accountability.
5. Foster a continuous improvement mindset.
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Gain alignment by focusing on the customer
• Measure the digital experience
• Perform synthetic testing
including visual monitoring
• Launch using feature flags
• Test multiple feature variations
across audience segments
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Leverage automation to achieve faster results
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• Automate web UI and API
testing using canaries
• Monitor internet performance
• Collect fine-grained metrics
and logs
• Discover issues faster - reduce
MTTI and MTTR

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Increase transparency and improve communication
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• Alarm when thresholds are
breached or anomalies are
detected
• Centralize operational data
• Route incidents to AWS
Systems Manager OpsCenter or
Amazon EventBridge API
destination partners

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Build a culture of accountability
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• Allow developers to take
ownership of test cases
• Group canaries by application
component, business function,
or customer workflow
• Track and publish results

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Foster a continuous improvement mindset
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• Use data to identify bottlenecks
and performance degradation
• Perform real-user monitoring to
inform your product roadmap
• Incorporate A/B testing into
feature launches
• Experiment and adjust

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Application Performance
Monitoring Tools
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AWS native observability and APM stack
Digital Experience CloudWatch Synthetics, CloudWatch RUM, CloudWatch Evidently
Network CloudWatch Internet Monitor
Application
AWS X-Ray & X-Ray Insights, CloudWatch ServiceLens, Container Insights,
Lambda Insights, Contributor Insights, Application Insights
Infrastructure CloudWatch Logs, Alarms, Metrics, Dashboards, Resource Health
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CloudWatch Synthetics Canaries
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CloudWatch RUM
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CloudWatch Internet Monitor
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CloudWatch Evidently experiments
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CloudWatch ServiceLens Map
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Next Steps
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Visit the One Observability Workshop
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17 different AWS native
observability modules, including
everything discussed here today.
Available in English, German
Spanish, Korean, and Japanese.
catalog.workshops.aws/observability

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Learning Resources and Best Practices
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One Observability
Workshop
Observability
Best Practices
Skill Builder
AWS Observability

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Thank you!
Rob Sable
Connect: linkedin.com/in/robsable/