AWS – Application map is now generally available for Amazon CloudWatch

Amazon CloudWatch now helps you monitor large-scale distributed applications by automatically discovering and organizing services into groups based on configurations and their relationships. SREs and DevOps teams can identify critical dependencies and blast radius impacts to remediate issues faster. You get an always-on, out-of-the-box catalog and map that visualizes services and dependencies across AWS accounts and regions, organizing them into logical groups that align with how customers think about their systems—without manual configurations. You can also apply dynamic grouping based on how you organize applications—by teams, business units, criticality tiers, or other attributes.

With this new application performance monitoring (APM) capability, customers can quickly visualize which applications and dependencies to focus on while troubleshooting their distributed applications. For example, SRE and DevOps teams can now accelerate root cause analysis and reduce mean-time-to-resolution (MTTR) through high-level operational signals such as SLOs, health indicators, changes, and top observations. The application map integrates with a contextual troubleshooting drawer that surfaces relevant metrics and actionable insights to accelerate triage. When deeper investigation is needed, teams can pivot to an application-specific dashboard tailored for troubleshooting. The map, drawer, and dashboard dynamically update as new services are discovered or as customers adjust how their environments are grouped—ensuring the view is always accurate and aligned with how teams operate.

This new capability is now available in all AWS commercial regions where Application Signals have launched , at no additional cost. To learn more, please visit CloudWatch Application Signals documentation.

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