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Open Source Observability on AWS

Introduction

• The presenters are Rodrig (AWS Specialist Solutions Architect), Mark (AWS Product and Engineering Lead), and Cody (Tech Lead for Observability at Stripe).
• They will discuss the challenges of open source observability and demonstrate a solution, with Cody sharing Stripe's experiences and Mark presenting new features from AWS.

Observability Challenges

• The presenters introduce a scenario where an on-call engineer, Jessica, faces issues with her company's open source observability tools during an incident.
• The key challenges with open source observability include:
  • Additional overhead to manage scaling, security, and compliance
  • Rapid release cycles leading to breaking changes
  • Limited support and community engagement

Managed Observability on AWS

• The presenters introduce the AWS managed services for observability:
  • Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (metrics)
  • Amazon OpenSearch Service (logs and traces)
  • Amazon Managed Grafana (visualization)
• These services address the challenges of open source observability by:
  • Providing serverless, scalable, and fully managed solutions
  • Integrating with various AWS services and data sources
  • Offering security, compliance, and operational benefits

Demo

• Rodrig demonstrates a sample application instrumented with OpenTelemetry, showing how the data is collected and visualized using the AWS managed observability services.
• The dashboards correlate metrics from Prometheus and logs/traces from OpenSearch, providing a comprehensive view of the application's health and performance.

Cody's Experiences at Stripe

• Cody shares Stripe's journey of migrating from a vendor-based metric solution to Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus.
• Key challenges faced:
  • Automating the migration of 40,000 alerts, 150,000 dashboard queries, and 270 million metrics
  • Addressing user experience issues with the open source tools at high scale
  • Dealing with high-cardinality data and implementing a stream processing solution

New Features in AWS Observability

• Mark presents new features and capabilities in AWS observability services:
  • Scalability: 1 billion active time series per workspace and 100,000 rules
  • Cost Effectiveness: Leveraging AWS-managed logs (VPC Flow Logs, CloudTrail, WAF Logs)
  • Portability: Observability Solutions Catalog for pre-built monitoring templates
  • AI/ML: Anomaly detection and natural language queries in Amazon OpenSearch

Conclusion

• AWS continues to collaborate with the open source community to address the needs of customers.
• The presenters encourage attendees to explore the managed observability services and the open source projects they contribute to.
• They offer to provide further guidance and support to attendees interested in learning more.