Cloud Monitoring & Observability

Overview

Designed and implemented a comprehensive monitoring and observability solution for cloud-native applications. The system provides real-time insights into application performance, infrastructure health, and business metrics.

Monitoring Stack

• New Relic: Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and distributed tracing
• AWS CloudWatch: Infrastructure metrics, logs, and alarms
• Custom Dashboards: Business metrics and KPI tracking
• Alerting System: Multi-channel notifications (Slack, PagerDuty, Email)

Key Features

• Real-time application performance monitoring
• Infrastructure health dashboards
• Automated alerting with intelligent routing
• Distributed tracing across microservices
• Log aggregation and analysis
• Cost monitoring and optimization recommendations

Results

The implementation resulted in a 60% reduction in incident response time. Proactive alerting helped identify and resolve issues before they impacted users. The comprehensive dashboards provided visibility into system behavior, enabling data-driven decisions for capacity planning and optimization.