Getting Started with Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedGetting Started with Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP) is a Prometheus-compatible monitoring service for container infrastructure and application metrics for containers that makes it easy for customers to securely monitor container environments at scale. Prometheus supports a variety of metric collection mechanisms that includes a number…

Amazon Location – Add Maps and Location Awareness to Your Applications

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAmazon Location – Add Maps and Location Awareness to Your Applications We want to make it easier and more cost-effective for you to add maps, location awareness, and other location-based features to your web and mobile applications. Until now, doing this has been somewhat complex and expensive, and also tied you to…

Building a reliable metrics pipeline with the OpenTelemetry Collector for AWS Managed Service for Prometheus

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedBuilding a reliable metrics pipeline with the OpenTelemetry Collector for AWS Managed Service for Prometheus In this blog post, AWS intern engineers Aman Brar and Jason Liu talk about their experience working with the OpenTelemetry Collector and Prometheus Remote Write Exporter. They share their experiences in tackling challenges they faced and how…

Optimizing batch processing with custom checkpoints in AWS Lambda

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedOptimizing batch processing with custom checkpoints in AWS Lambda AWS Lambda can process batches of messages from sources like Amazon Kinesis Data Streams or Amazon DynamoDB Streams. In normal operation, the processing function moves from one batch to the next to consume messages from the stream. However, when an error occurs in…