Monitoring and observability

Amazon CloudWatch Omni is now available in additional AWS Regions

AWS announces that Amazon CloudWatch Omni is now available in eight additional AWS Regions. CloudWatch Omni is an AI-powered observability experience, organized around your teams and the applications they run, that helps you observe and troubleshoot your applications and agents…

Generally Available: Metrics usage insights for Azure Monitor workspace

Metrics usage insights is now generally available, giving you greater visibility into what’s driving metrics usage across your Azure Monitor workspace.

Amazon CloudWatch log centralization now available in AWS GovCloud and additional commercial Regions

Amazon CloudWatch log centralization is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) and 13 additional commercial Regions.

Amazon CloudWatch announces log routing and chained log parsers

Amazon CloudWatch now supports conditional log routing and chained parsers via pipelines, giving you more control over how log data is transformed and which CloudWatch log group it's sent to.

Amazon ECS adds LiveTaskCount and removes the charge for RunningTaskCount metric

Today, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) announces LiveTaskCount, a new ECS service metric that reports how many tasks are actively running in your service, available to all customers at no additional charge.

AWS Batch now publishes job metrics to Amazon CloudWatch

AWS Batch now publishes job metrics to Amazon CloudWatch, providing native observability for batch workloads. AWS Batch emits metrics throughout the job lifecycle, giving you visibility into job queue health, failure rates, and job durations.

Bulk registration of discovered services and workloads to an App Hub application is generally available (GA).

For more information, see Register one or more discovered services or workloads.

Announcing DNS analytics and insights for Route 53 Global Resolver and DNS Firewall

Route 53 Global Resolver and DNS Firewall now provide DNS analytics and insights through native Amazon CloudWatch integration.

Amazon Managed Grafana now supports creating Grafana 13.2 workspaces

Amazon Managed Grafana now supports creating new workspaces with Grafana version 13.2. This release brings features from open-source Grafana versions 13.0 to 13.2, including Git Sync for dashboards, dynamic dashboards, and PromQL query support in the Amazon CloudWatch data…

The application topology graph is now generally available (GA).

This graph helps you to understand relationships between applications, services, and workloads, and shows you traffic flow and incidents in the context of your applications.

Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights now lets you estimate bytes scanned before running a query

Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights now lets you estimate the volume of log data, in bytes, that a query would scan over your selected log groups and time range - without running the query.

Amazon CloudWatch Logs now automatically indexes frequently queried fields

Amazon CloudWatch Logs now automatically indexes the fields you query frequently, speeding up CloudWatch Logs Insights queries without requiring any manual setup.

The legacy Monitoring agent has officially reached its end of support.

All standard maintenance and regular bug fixes for the agent have ceased. We recommend migrating to one of the supported alternatives. For more information about this deprecation, see Legacy Monitoring and Logging agent end of support.

Only platform services can write log entries to billing accounts.

These logs have names with the format billingAccounts/[BILLING_ACCOUNT_ID]/logs/[LOG_ID]. For more information, see entries.write.

The legacy Logging agent has officially reached its end of support.

All standard maintenance and regular bug fixes for the agent have ceased. We recommend migrating to one of the supported alternatives. For more information about this deprecation, see Legacy Monitoring and Logging agents end of support.

Amazon CloudWatch Omni: AI-first observability for agents and applications

AWS announces the general availability of Amazon CloudWatch Omni, an evolution of Amazon CloudWatch.

Starting with version 2.71.0, you can use an Ops Agent configuration option to export your metrics, logs, and traces by using the OpenTelemetry-based Telemetry…

Starting with version 2.71.0, you can use an Ops Agent configuration option to export your metrics, logs, and traces by using the OpenTelemetry-based Telemetry API rather than by using the Cloud Monitoring API, Logging API, or Trace API.

AWS HealthOmics now publishes real-time run metrics to Amazon CloudWatch

AWS HealthOmics now publishes real-time run metrics to Amazon CloudWatch, giving you visibility into workflow resource utilization as runs execute.

Amazon CloudWatch now supports network health indicator for TGW inter-Region peering using synthetic monitors

With synthetic monitors in Amazon CloudWatch Network Monitoring, you can now determine whether a network performance issue on a path that crosses an AWS Transit Gateway inter-Region peering connection is caused by the AWS network.

A chart on a dashboard can override the dashboard's time-range setting.

This feature lets you view trends over a long period or metric data with low sampling rates alongside charts that show only recent data, and is Generally Available (GA).