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CloudWatch Application Insights

Provides automated monitoring and problem detection for applications, creating dashboards that surface potential issues.

Aims to reduce mean time to detection (MTTD) and mean time to resolution (MTTR) by correlating metrics, logs, and events.

Supported Application Environments

Amazon EC2 workloads running:

Java
.NET
Microsoft IIS Web Server
Databases

Can monitor many AWS resources, including:

Amazon EBS
Amazon RDS
Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
Auto Scaling Groups (ASG)
AWS Lambda
Amazon SQS
DynamoDB
Amazon S3
ECS
EKS
Amazon SNS
API Gateway

Key Features

Uses Amazon SageMaker to provide intelligent analysis and anomaly detection.

Automatically creates application health dashboards.

Correlates telemetry data to highlight root causes.

Sends detected issues to:

Amazon EventBridge for automated workflows
AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter for incident tracking and resolution