Welcome to Phase 6: Operations. Your online store API runs in production, serving customers and processing orders, but you lack visibility into system performance and failure patterns. When customers report slow checkouts or failed payments, you cannot identify root causes quickly. Without monitoring and tracing, you operate reactively, learning about problems only after they impact customers.This module establishes comprehensive observability for your online store using Amazon CloudWatch, AWS X
AWS Dev - Monitoring and Observability
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AWS Dev - Monitoring and Observability
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Intermediate level
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1 hour to complete
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What you'll learn
Implement CloudWatch metrics and custom dimensions to track business KPIs like conversion rates, cart abandonment, and checkout success
Implement AWS X-Ray distributed tracing to trace complete request flows and identify performance bottlenecks in multi-service workflows
Instrument new applications with the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) and monitor service health with CloudWatch Application Signals
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