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Centralized AWS Observability

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One place to see metrics, logs and traces from many AWS accounts and on-prem systems, built on Grafana, Prometheus, YACE and the LGTM stack.

  1. The architecture: why we picked each part of the stack.
  2. Metrics and logs in one account: Terraform for CloudWatch OAM sinks and links, log centralization rules, and the Lambda functions that ship logs to Loki.
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Centralized AWS Observability with OAM and Terraform (Part 2)

Terraform for CloudWatch cross-account observability: aws_oam_sink and aws_oam_link for metrics, plus CloudWatch Logs centralization rules, with code snippets.

AWSTerraformGrafana

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Centralized AWS Observability Architecture: CloudWatch, YACE and Grafana (Part 1)

How we chose one observability stack for multi-account AWS and on-prem workloads: Grafana, Prometheus, YACE and the LGTM stack, and the reasons behind each pick.

AWSTerraformGrafana