Aws observability

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Builds, configures, debugs, and optimizes AWS observability using CloudWatch (Logs Insights, Metrics, Alarms, Dashboards, EMF), X-Ray, CloudTrail, and ADOT. Covers Log Insights query syntax (fields, filter, stats, parse, pattern, join, subqueries), alarm configuration (metric, composite, anomaly detection, missing data treatment), dashboard design, custom metrics (PutMetricData, EMF, metric filters), X-Ray tracing (ADOT, sampling rules, annotations vs metadata), ADOT collector config, and CloudTrail auditing. Use when the user mentions CloudWatch, Log Insights, alarms, INSUFFICIENT_DATA, dashboards, custom metrics, EMF, X-Ray, traces, sampling, CloudTrail, who deleted, ADOT, OpenTelemetry, observability, monitoring, synthetics, canaries, or troubleshooting alarm behavior. Do NOT use for application logging setup, container log drivers, or security threat detection.

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AWS Observability

Overview

Domain expertise for AWS observability across metrics, logs, and traces. Covers CloudWatch platform capabilities (alarms, dashboards, Log Insights, custom metrics, EMF), X-Ray trace analysis, CloudTrail operational auditing, and ADOT collector configuration.

Works best with the AWS MCP server — enables running CLI commands, querying CloudWatch, and validating configurations directly. All guidance also works with standard AWS CLI access.

Note: Reference files contain specific runtime versions, quota values, and feature matrices that may change. When precision matters (e.g., deploying to production, choosing a runtime, or checking a quota), confirm values against current AWS documentation rather than relying solely on the values in these files.

Routing

User need	Action
Writing Log Insights queries	Read log-insights.md
Configuring alarms (metric, composite, anomaly)	Read alarms.md
Publishing custom metrics or using EMF	Read metrics.md
Setting up X-Ray tracing or ADOT	Read tracing.md
Building dashboards	Read dashboards.md
Debugging observability issues	Read troubleshooting.md — starts with the 5 most common fixes
Debugging canary failures	Read synthetics.md — see Common failures table
CloudTrail operational auditing	Read cloudtrail.md
Setting up Lambda monitoring with CDK	Use alarm-template.ts as a starting point
Creating synthetic canaries	Read synthetics.md
Configuring ADOT collector	Use otel-config.yaml as a starting point
Spans multiple areas	Read the most specific reference first, then consult others as needed

Files

File	Content
alarms.md	Metric, composite, anomaly detection alarms — configuration, constraints, recommended defaults
log-insights.md	Complete query syntax, commands, functions, known issues, reusable query library
metrics.md	Custom metrics, EMF spec, metric filters, high-resolution, retention
tracing.md	X-Ray → ADOT migration, sampling rules, annotations vs metadata, collector config
dashboards.md	Widget types, cross-account/region, dynamic labels, sharing
troubleshooting.md	Error → cause → fix for all observability services
cloudtrail.md	Operational auditing, event types, S3+Athena queries
synthetics.md	Canary runtime/blueprint constraints, VPC networking, common failures
alarm-template.ts	Best-practice CDK Lambda monitoring (alarms + dashboard)
otel-config.yaml	ADOT collector config for X-Ray traces + CloudWatch EMF metrics