Amazon Management Services Monitoring
Amazon Management Services help organizations simplify operational management, automate administrative tasks, maintain infrastructure compliance, and improve visibility across AWS environments. Monitoring these management services is essential to ensure operational efficiency, maintain system health, and proactively identify issues that may affect cloud workloads and business continuity.
Application Manager provides comprehensive monitoring capabilities for Amazon Management Services, enabling you to track performance, resource health, operational status, and service activity across your AWS environment from a single console.
Amazon CloudWatch Logs Regional monitoring
Amazon CloudWatch Logs enables centralized collection, storage, and monitoring of log data from AWS resources and applications, helping teams troubleshoot issues and maintain operational visibility. Monitoring CloudWatch Logs at the regional level provides insight into log ingestion health, delivery pipeline performance, and log group configuration across your environment.
With Applications Manager, you can:
- Monitor log ingestion API health by tracking PutLogEvents API calls alongside errors and throttles to catch ingestion failures before they cause data gaps.
- Track account-level delivery and transformation pipeline performance, including delivery errors, transformation errors, and delivery throttles, as well as account-level subscription filter and transformer configuration, to ensure log processing runs smoothly end to end.
- Gain visibility into forwarded and transformed log volume, including event counts and data size, to understand the scale of log activity moving through your pipelines.
- Monitor log group details, including log group class, retention period, storage consumed, and metric filters, to keep your logging setup organized and cost-efficient.
- Track log group distribution and retention gaps by monitoring counts across standard, infrequent access, and delivery class log groups, along with log groups missing a retention policy, and view region-wide totals for log groups and storage consumed, to reduce unnecessary storage costs.
AWS Health Events monitoring
AWS Health Events provides real-time visibility into the operational status of your AWS environment. Using the AWS Health API, it surfaces events across AWS services, including issues affecting service availability, scheduled maintenance, and account-specific notifications. Events are categorized by type and can be filtered by region and service, enabling you to quickly identify and respond to disruptions impacting your account.
With Applications Manager, you can:
- Monitor open, upcoming, and closed events across all AWS services and regions for a consolidated view of your account's health status.
- Track event rate distributions and total event counts to quickly identify periods of elevated service disruptions or scheduled maintenance affecting cloud workloads.
- Analyze events by type, region, and service to pinpoint the root cause of disruptions and plan for upcoming changes.
- Maintain a historical record of closed events to support post-incident analysis and improve infrastructure planning.
- Get granular visibility into affected AWS resources through resource-level entity tracking to prioritize incident response and ensure business continuity.
- Accelerate troubleshooting and reduce downtime by receiving real-time alerts on ongoing health issues, enabling faster remediation of service-impacting events.
AWS Organizations monitoring
AWS Organizations helps centrally manage and govern multiple AWS accounts by grouping them into organizational units and applying consistent policies across the board. Monitoring Organizations gives administrators visibility into account structure, membership changes, and policy enforcement across your account hierarchy.
With Applications Manager, you can:
- Monitor organization structure by tracking the number of accounts, directly nested organizational units, and attached SCPs at each root and organizational unit, along with management account and feature set details, to keep a clear picture of your account hierarchy.
- Track account lifecycle activity, including accounts added in the last 24 hours, invited accounts, and created accounts, to stay on top of organizational growth and onboarding.
- Gain visibility into account status distribution across active, suspended, pending closure, pending activation, and closed accounts to catch anomalies in account health.
- Monitor organizational units and member account details, including account email, join method, join time, and account state, with the ability to drill down into each organizational unit's own monitor, to maintain an accurate inventory of your AWS environment.
- Track Service Control Policies (SCPs) attached directly to each organization node, including policy name, description, and whether they are AWS-managed, along with delegated administrators across your organization, to ensure the right guardrails are enforced across accounts.
Amazon Systems Manager monitoring
AWS Systems Manager is a secure end-to-end management service that helps organizations automate operational tasks, manage infrastructure at scale, maintain compliance, monitor resources, and simplify administration across AWS and hybrid environments. It provides centralized visibility and control over cloud resources, enabling efficient patch management, configuration management, automation, and operational insights.
With Applications Manager, you can:
- Monitor Systems Manager activities across managed resources to maintain operational efficiency and identify issues affecting automation workflows or resource management tasks.
- Ensure compliance and configuration consistency by tracking key operational status of various commands and identifying deviations that may impact infrastructure health or security requirements.
- Improve visibility into managed instances to ensure balanced resource allocation and continuous management capabilities.
- Reduce operational risks by proactively identifying failed command executions, configuration issues, or management disruptions affecting AWS workloads.
- Accelerate troubleshooting and response times by receiving alerts on abnormal command operations, enabling faster remediation and uninterrupted infrastructure management.
AWS Trusted Advisor monitoring
AWS Trusted Advisor is an AWS service that inspects your AWS environment and provides real-time recommendations to help you follow AWS best practices across five categories: cost optimization, performance, security, fault tolerance, and service limits. It continuously analyzes your resource configurations and usage to help you reduce costs, improve system performance and reliability, and close security gaps.
With Applications Manager, you can:
- Track check counts by status (action recommended, investigation recommended, and no problem detected) to quickly identify areas requiring immediate attention across all Trusted Advisor check categories.
- Monitor flagged, processed, suppressed, and ignored resource counts to understand the scope of compliance gaps and prioritize remediation efforts.
- Drill into individual check details to view critical and warning resource counts per check, enabling precise and prioritized issue resolution.
- Maintain continuous alignment with AWS best practices by proactively monitoring check statuses and addressing recommendations before they escalate into operational issues.
- Accelerate troubleshooting by identifying checks with high flagged resource counts, enabling faster investigation and resolution of compliance issues.
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