Measuring Real EC2 Idle Time: A CloudWatch Script Walkthrough
The metric that lies by omission Open the CloudWatch console for almost any EC2 dev box and you'll see CPUUtilization hovering at 1-3% for hours. Some…
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Datadog vs AWS Ops Agents: AI Observability Showdown
This article was originally published on DevOpsStart.com. It provides a detailed comparison of Datadog and AWS Ops Agents for AI-driven observability,…
We Deleted 300 Lines of Code After Discovering Node.js 22's Hidden Perf Feature
Node.js 22's built-in diagnostics channel is being criminally underused. This week, our team stumbled upon an obscure option that replaced 300 lines o…
How to Control CloudWatch Logs Costs on ECS
How to Control CloudWatch Logs Costs on ECS? Originally published at https://fortem.dev/blog/cloudwatch-costs-ecs ECS sends all logs to CloudWatch wit…
How to Control CloudWatch Logs Costs on ECS
Your AWS bill shows CloudWatch at $400 this month. You have 15 ECS services logging INFO-level with retention set to Never Expire. You didn't configur…
What the first 24 hours of production CloudWatch data told us
Originally published on graycloudarch.com . The morning after go-live, the first thing I looked at was CPU. One of the two delivery services was sitti…
AWS DevOps Agent: From Setup to First Real Investigation (And the Gotchas in Between)
When an alert fires at 2am, the first 15 minutes aren't spent fixing anything. They're spent gathering context — opening CloudWatch, checking New Reli…