AWS Observability now available as a Kiro power

Today, AWS announces AWS Observability as a Kiro power, enabling developers and operators to investigate infrastructure and application health issues faster with AI agent-assisted workflows in Kiro. Kiro Powers is a repository of curated and pre-packaged Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, steering files, and hooks validated by Kiro partners to accelerate specialized software development and deployment use cases.

The AWS Observability power packages four specialized MCP servers with targeted observability guidance: the CloudWatch MCP server for observability data; the Application Signals MCP server for application performance monitoring; the CloudTrail MCP server for security analysis and compliance; and the AWS Documentation MCP server for contextual reference access. This unified platform gives Kiro agents instant context for comprehensive workflows including alarm response, anomaly detection, distributed tracing, SLO compliance monitoring, and security investigation. Additionally, the power includes automated gap analysis that helps you identify and fix missing instrumentation.

With the AWS Observability power, developers can now accelerate troubleshooting their distributed applications and infrastructure in minutes, directly in their IDE. The power addresses two critical needs: reducing mean time to resolution (MTTR) for active incidents and proactively improving your observability stack. For faster incident response, when investigating an active alarm, the power dynamically loads relevant guidance and operational signals so AI agents receive only the context needed for the specific troubleshooting task at hand. For stack improvement, the automated gap analysis examines your code to identify missing instrumentation patterns—such as unlogged errors, missing correlation IDs, or absent distributed tracing—and provides actionable recommendations. The power includes eight comprehensive steering guides covering incident response, alerting, performance monitoring, security auditing, and gap analysis.

The AWS Observability power is available for one-click installation within Kiro IDE and Kiro powers webpage in all AWS Regions, with each underlying MCP server functional based on regional support of the corresponding AWS service. To learn more about AWS observability MCP servers, visit our documentation.