Monitoring your system effectively is crucial for maintaining performance and user satisfaction. Two popular methodologies for choosing what to measure and monitor are the USE Method and the RED Method. Let’s break down how each can guide you in setting metrics and alerts for optimal impact on business and user experience. TL;DR USE Method: Utilization, Saturation, Errors.RED Method: Rate, Errors,... [read more]
May 26, 2024
AWS announced on Friday that now you can specify and use variables for aggregated metrics in Amazon CloudWatch Dashboards. This was one of the long-awaited features most of us were waiting for. Now you can navigate between different views projecting different data sets for the same resource. You can read more about it here, here, and here. You can also follow the steps specified in this example. A... [read more]
June 29, 2023
Monitoring your system effectively is crucial for maintaining performance and user satisfaction. Two popular methodologies for choosing what to measure and monitor are the USE Method and the RED Method. Let’s break down how each can guide you in setting metrics and alerts for optimal impact on business and user experience. TL;DR USE Method: Utilization, Saturation, Errors.RED Method: Rate, Errors,... [read more]
May 26, 2024
AWS announced on Friday that now you can specify and use variables for aggregated metrics in Amazon CloudWatch Dashboards. This was one of the long-awaited features most of us were waiting for. Now you can navigate between different views projecting different data sets for the same resource. You can read more about it here, here, and here. You can also follow the steps specified in this example. A... [read more]
June 29, 2023
