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Observability and Performance for Applications

Importance of Observability

• Performance and reliability are critical in modern applications, just like in sports.
• Understanding application behavior and quickly resolving issues is key to staying competitive.
• Observability platforms collect telemetry data (logs, metrics, traces) to help developers debug and improve applications.

Open Search Service

• Open Search is a popular open-source search and analytics suite for observability.
• AWS Open Search Service is a fully managed service to run Open Search at scale securely and reliably.
• It allows customers to focus on gaining insights from observability data rather than managing infrastructure.

Instrumenting and Collecting Telemetry Data

• Agents can collect logs, metrics and traces from applications and send them to the observability platform.
• Open Telemetry is a popular vendor-agnostic SDK for instrumenting applications.
• AWS provides its own distribution of Open Telemetry to work with AWS services.
• Open Search Service offers tiered storage to retain data for different durations.

Analyzing Observability Data

• Open Search Dashboard provides a guided user experience to work with observability data.
• It comes pre-configured with views to help perform root cause analysis.
• It offers monitoring and anomaly detection to proactively alert on application issues.
• Trace visualization and log grouping capabilities help quickly identify problem areas.
• Open Search's query language (PPL) and natural language querying make it easy to analyze data.

Security Analytics

• Open Search Service also provides security analytics capabilities out-of-the-box.
• It can help detect anomalous access patterns and security threats in logs.

Migration to Open Search Service

• Cisco's WebEx Connect team migrated their observability platform to Open Search Service.
• They were able to reduce costs by 17% and migrate 140TB of data in 3 months.
• The managed service helped them focus on building insights rather than managing infrastructure.

New Open Search UI Features

Workspace and Consolidated Dashboard

• Open Search UI now provides a "Workspace" feature to organize dashboards and queries.
• It allows consolidating dashboards from multiple clusters/collections into a single view.

Enhanced Query Experience

• SQL, PPL and natural language queries are now available in a unified "Discover" interface.
• Autocomplete helps build queries more efficiently.

Integrating External Data Sources

• Open Search UI now supports querying data directly from Amazon CloudWatch Logs and Security Lake.
• This provides a unified view of observability data across different sources.

The video showcases how Open Search Service and the new Open Search UI features can help enterprises build robust observability platforms to monitor and improve application performance and reliability.