Relevant News - Amazon CloudWatch
Relevant News - Amazon CloudWatchCategory: Management & Governance
Here are the latest news items for Amazon CloudWatch.
Link: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/02/cloudwatch-centralization-custom-groups/
Amazon CloudWatch now supports customizing destination log group names when creating CloudWatch log centralization rules. Organizations managing logs across multiple accounts can now use attributes to organize centralized logs into meaningful hierarchies — by account ID, region, organizational unit, or other AWS Organizations metadata — that match how their organization operates and what their compliance requirements demand.
You can define a destination log group name structure using attributes that CloudWatch Logs automatically replaces with actual values when logs are copied. For example, using the pattern ${source.accountId}/${source.region}/${source.logGroup} creates destination log groups like 123456789012/us-east-1/cloudtrail/managementevent, making it easy to identify which account and region logs originated from. You can use attributes, including source account ID, region, log group name, organization ID, organizational unit ID, root ID, and the full organizational path.
Customizable destination log group names are available in all centralization rules supported regions.
Customers can use centralization rules to centralize one copy of logs for free (ingestion). Additional copies are charged at $0.05/GB of logs centralized (the backup region feature is considered an additional copy). Storage charges apply. To learn more, visit the CloudWatch Logs Centralization documentation.
Published: 2026-02-27 18:50:00+00:00
Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights now provides lock contention diagnostics for Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL instances. This feature helps you identify the root cause behind both ongoing and historical lock contention issues within minutes. The lock contention diagnostics feature is available exclusively in the Advanced mode of CloudWatch Database Insights.
With this launch, you can visualize a locking condition in the Database Insights console, which shows the relationship between blocking and waiting sessions. The visualization helps you quickly identify the dominating sessions, queries, or objects causing lock contention. Additionally, this feature persists historical locking data for 15 months, allowing you to analyze and investigate historical locking conditions. You no longer need to manually run custom queries or rely on application logs to diagnose lock contention issues, streamlining the troubleshooting process.
You can get started with this feature by enabling the Advanced mode of CloudWatch Database Insights on your Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL clusters using the RDS console, AWS APIs, or the AWS SDK. CloudWatch Database Insights delivers database health monitoring aggregated at the fleet level, as well as instance-level dashboards for detailed database and SQL query analysis.
CloudWatch Database Insights is available in all public AWS Regions and offers vCPU-based pricing – see the pricing page for details. For further information, visit the Database Insights documentation.
Published: 2026-02-26 18:00:00+00:00
Today, Amazon CloudWatch Observability EKS add-on version 5.0.0 automatically enables CloudWatch Application Signals — Amazon's application performance monitoring (APM) capability — for all new installations and upgrades, eliminating the previous manual opt-in step. Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is a managed Kubernetes service that simplifies running containerized applications at scale. The CloudWatch Observability add-on for EKS extends native Kubernetes observability by integrating Enhanced Container Insights, Container Logs, and now Application Signals directly into your clusters. The Observability add-on automatically instruments your services to collect traces, metrics, and logs for a unified, application-centric view. For DevOps engineers, platform teams, and developers who needed application-level visibility into their EKS-hosted services — such as service latency, error rates, and request traces — this change closes that gap by making those capabilities available out of the box, so teams can focus on building and operating applications rather than configuring observability tooling.azon EKS.
With Application Signals now enabled by default, customers immediately benefit from automatic service instrumentation — no manual configuration or Kubernetes workload annotations required — along with pre-built dashboards that surface application performance metrics and a rich troubleshooting experience that goes beyond infrastructure-level data to help teams quickly identify and resolve issues. For example, a platform team managing a microservices application on EKS can now detect latency spikes or error rate increases at the service level without any additional setup, accelerating root cause analysis during incidents.
This feature is available in all commercial AWS regions where Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals is available; to get started, you can refer to the Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals documentation and upgrade to version 5.0.0 of the add-on.
Published: 2026-02-26 16:43:00+00:00
AWS Outposts racks now support VifConnectionStatus and VifBgpSessionState Amazon CloudWatch metrics in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. These metrics provide visibility into the connectivity status of your Outposts racks' Local Gateway (LGW) and Service Link Virtual Interfaces (VIFs) with your on-premises devices.
These metrics provide you with the ability to monitor Outposts VIF connectivity status directly within the CloudWatch console, without having to rely on external networking tools or coordination with other teams. You can use these metrics to set alarms, troubleshoot connectivity issues, and ensure your Outposts racks are properly integrated with your on-premises infrastructure. The VifConnectionStatus metric indicates whether an Outposts VIF is successfully connected, configured, and ready to forward traffic. A value of "1" means that the VIF is operational, while "0" means that it is not ready. The VifBgpSessionState metric shows the current state of the BGP session between the Outposts VIF and the on-premises device, with values ranging from 1 (IDLE) to 6 (ESTABLISHED).
The VifConnectionStatus and VifBgpSessionState metrics are now available for all Outposts VIFs in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions where Outposts racks are available.
To get started, read this blog post and access the metrics in the CloudWatch console. To learn more, check out the CloudWatch metrics for Outposts documentation for first-generation Outposts racks.
Published: 2026-02-25 21:30:00+00:00
Link: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/02/aws-healthimaging-additional-metrics/
AWS HealthImaging has launched additional metrics through Amazon CloudWatch that enable monitoring storage at the account and data store levels. These new metrics help customers better understand their medical imaging storage and growth trends over time.
HealthImaging now provides customers with granular CloudWatch metrics to monitor their data stores. Customers can track storage by volume, number of image sets, and the number of DICOM studies, series, and instances. These metrics provide the insights needed to manage both single-tenant and multi-tenant workloads at petabyte scale. To learn more, visit Using Amazon CloudWatch with HealthImaging.
AWS HealthImaging is a HIPAA-eligible service that empowers healthcare providers and their software partners to store, analyze, and share medical images. AWS HealthImaging is generally available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Europe (Ireland).
Published: 2026-02-16 22:38:00+00:00
Link: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/02/amazon-eventbridge-scheduler-resource-metrics/
Amazon EventBridge Scheduler now emits resource count metrics to Amazon CloudWatch, enabling you to monitor the approximate number of schedules and schedule groups in your account. These new metrics help you identify when you're approaching your service quota limits so you can request increases before running out of capacity. You can increase the schedules quota, for instance, from the default of 10 million to billions.
With Amazon EventBridge Scheduler, you can create billions of scheduled events and tasks that run across more than 270 AWS services, without provisioning or managing infrastructure. You can set up one-time or recurring schedules using cron expressions, rate expressions, or specific times, with support for time zones and daylight savings. Today's addition of resource count metrics enhances your ability to manage capacity planning and scale your scheduled workloads with confidence.
These metrics are available at no additional cost in all AWS Regions, including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.
To learn more, see the Monitoring EventBridge Scheduler documentation or view the metrics in the CloudWatch console.
Published: 2026-02-17 17:29:00+00:00
Published: 2025-12-15 16:42:05+00:00