Monitoring AWS services and improving operational efficiency with Sumo Logic API
Sumo Logic Provides AWS Monitoring API for DevOps Engineers and Developers
Many enterprises are looking to monitor their cloud-based applications and the supporting AWS services. They need tools that can process and render raw log data into easy-to-understand visuals. Sumo Logic provides this functionality for AWS users.
To monitor AWS services, sign in to the Site24x7 console and choose your monitored AWS account. Select API Gateway Resource from the menu dropdown. Enter a Regex pattern to opt-in to specific resources in your chosen API Gateway stage.
CloudTrail
CloudTrail enables you to record, view, and analyze API activity across your AWS account. It provides a detailed history of activity and helps you meet compliance and governance requirements. It also enables you to quickly troubleshoot problems and improve operational efficiency.
CloudTrail logs management and data events in gzip archive format to an Amazon S3 bucket that you specify when creating the trail. Each event in the file provides details about the activity: who made the request, which services were used, what actions were performed, and what parameters were passed to each service.
You can configure a trail to focus on a single region or a set of regions. For maximum visibility, we recommend enabling a trail that tracks activity across all regions. This ensures that any problems occurring in any region are not overlooked.
Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring service for AWS resources, applications, and services. It collects system metrics and log files, visualizes them in dashboards, and provides alerts and automated actions. It is used by DevOps engineers, developers, and site reliability engineers (SRE).
Metrics data is saved with 1-minute granularity for free, and you can create alarms based on metric thresholds. It can also monitor custom metrics that you define. It can also perform detailed monitoring of some specific AWS services like EC2, EBS, and RDS.
It can track performance trends and help you detect and respond to problems, such as instance failures and auto-scaling events. It can also help you analyze and troubleshoot application performance by tracking custom metrics and tracing applications. It can also provide cross-account observability by enabling you to search for log groups stored across multiple accounts from a single view and run Contributor Insights rules across accounts.
Elastic Load Balancing
Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple backend servers to ensure high availability and performance. It also provides cloud autoscaling capabilities that help you scale your applications quickly and efficiently.
ELB operates at Layer 4 of the OSI model, routing traffic based on IP address and port to an appropriate backend server. It is flexible and scalable, with deep integrations with other Amazon Web Services.
ELB supports several types of rules that determine how requests are routed. For example, you can set rules that identify application headers, such as /API or /MOBILE. You can then direct traffic to registered targets based on those headers. You can also configure health checks to verify the status of the target and to prevent the load balancer from sending traffic to unhealthy targets.
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service that allows users to focus on their business application while AWS handles the management of the underlying infrastructure. It is designed to support high-availability, durability and performance at Internet scale. It uses Hinted Handoff to guarantee that read and write operations are not rejected due to temporary node or network failures.
Its query model is simple and does not require a relational schema, allowing it to handle a wide variety of business use cases. It is also capable of handling extremely high concurrency and request rates.
It also provides a number of features that can help improve the efficiency of your applications. These include the ability to encrypt your data and provide fine-grained identity management. It also offers multiple regions for disaster recovery.
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that runs your code on demand, with no need to worry about underlying infrastructure. It can handle real-time tasks and scale up to thousands of requests per second, with no upfront cost. It can also reduce your IT costs by eliminating the need for servers, application servers, and even a mass-mailing system.
Using Lambda, you can quickly deploy code to handle events such as a telemetry device sending data in a stream. You can use the Lambda service to identify specific values in the rapid flow of data, and then process it without slowing down your main application. This can be useful for handling a number of tasks, including predictive page rendering. This will improve user experience by reducing the time it takes to load pages.