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CloudWatch Application Signals now automatically captures errors, performance anomalies, and deployment events

CloudWatch Application Signals now automatically captures errors, performance anomalies, and deployment events

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Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals now automatically correlates deployment events with performance anomalies and error rates without requiring manual code instrumentation.
What: AWS released Service Events for CloudWatch Application Signals, which tracks deployment-related exceptions, latency spikes, and function-level performance metrics. It supports Java, Python, and JavaScript and is available in all commercial regions for applications using ADOT SDKs or the EKS observability add-on.
Why it matters: Automating the connection between deployments and telemetry reduces mean time to resolution by removing the need to manually cross-reference logs with release timestamps.
Takeaway: Navigate to the Errors tab in the CloudWatch Application Signals console to check if recent deployments correlate with your service's error spikes.
Decoder
  • ADOT: AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry, a distribution of the OpenTelemetry project managed by AWS.
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CloudWatch Application Signals now automatically captures errors, performance anomalies, and deployment events

Today, AWS announces Service Events for Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals, which automatically captures exception and latency event snapshots, function-level performance data, and deployment events from instrumented services without additional code changes. Customers can now quickly identify whether a deployment has introduced new exceptions by navigating to CloudWatch > Application Signals > [Service] > Errors in the CloudWatch console.

Service Events is available to any application with CloudWatch Application Signals enabled. Customers instrument their applications with the ADOT SDKs or the Amazon CloudWatch Observability EKS add-on. Once Application Signals is active, Service Events begins capturing exception and latency event snapshots and deployment events automatically. Optionally, customers can gain deeper performance visibility by turning on function-call metrics.

Service Events is available in all commercial AWS Regions. Supported languages are Java, Python, and JavaScript.

To get started, see Monitor service events in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide. Service Events data is captured as logs. Function call metrics are captured as OpenTelemetry metrics. Standard CloudWatch pricing applies. For details, see CloudWatch pricing.

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