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AWS Observability

AWS Observability for Grafana Cloud provides you with a centralized place to access, query, alert on, and interact with your infrastructure and large scale applications. Start work instead of managing a backend, and configure simply and securely. AWS Observability provides you with access to a fast, scalable backend that you don’t have to manage. Instead of running your own exporter to pull cloud data to a local observability system, you can use the Grafana cloud-native solution to keep your data in the cloud, with minimal setup overhead.

The benefits of using AWS Observability include:

  • Centralized access and management: Access and manage your metrics and logs in Grafana Cloud, and work with your observability data in a centralized, consistent way. All data is stored in a single backend along with the rest of your observability data. You can write single queries that span all data, including infrastructure and application data.
  • No credential exchange: Configure with no exchange of credentials required. AWS Observability follows AWS best practices for granting third parties access. Grafana Cloud gains access using AWS account delegation. Or you can configure AWS to send your data directly to Grafana Cloud.

Options out of the box

Out of the box, AWS Observability offers the following options.

Metrics

Connect and pull metrics from Amazon CloudWatch into Grafana Cloud using AWS CloudWatch metrics, without deploying or installing any local agents or configurations.

Use the preconfigured dashboards to view and analyze your metrics.

Logs

Use Logs with Lambda to connect and send logs from multiple AWS services to Grafana Cloud by deploying a Lambda-compatible agent for logs into your AWS infrastructure.

Send Application Load Balancer access logs to Grafana Cloud with a Lambda function.

Use Logs with Firehose for growing log volumes or large-scale logs. Logs with Firehose uses Amazon Data Firehose which is more scalable and almost three times cheaper.

You can monitor AWS logs by log groups.