Understand the AWS observability model and distinguish metrics, logs, traces, events, and operational signals.

Learn namespaces, dimensions, statistics, periods, resolution, custom metrics, and metric retrieval.

Analyze metrics using statistics, percentiles, metric math, and derived operational indicators.

Build operational dashboards that combine key metrics into a useful workload health view.

Create alarms for thresholds, anomaly conditions, missing data, and operational actions.

Learn log groups, log streams, retention, ingestion, export, and centralized log organization.

Search and analyze structured and unstructured logs using CloudWatch Logs Insights queries.

Turn matching log patterns into CloudWatch metrics for alerting and operational analysis.

Stream log data to supported destinations for centralized processing and real-time analysis.

Record AWS API activity and understand management events, data events, event history, trails, and event data stores.

Configure durable CloudTrail delivery to S3 and integrate CloudTrail with CloudWatch Logs for operational analysis.

Track resource configuration, configuration history, compliance rules, and configuration changes with AWS Config.

Evaluate AWS resource configurations against desired policies using managed and custom Config rules.

Route AWS service events and application events to targets for automation and event-driven operations.

Use Systems Manager for managed instances, inventory, parameters, patching, automation, and operational access.

Access managed instances without inbound SSH using audited Systems Manager sessions.

Execute administrative commands across managed nodes without direct SSH access.

Automate repeatable operational procedures using Systems Manager Automation runbooks.

Store configuration parameters and selected secrets for applications and operational automation.

Manage operating-system patch compliance and maintenance workflows using Systems Manager.

Collect operating-system metrics and logs from EC2 instances using the CloudWatch agent.

Monitor application endpoints and user-facing workflows with synthetic canaries.

Monitor AWS service health, account-specific events, maintenance, and operational impact.

Correlate metrics, logs, CloudTrail, Config, EventBridge, and service health data during incidents.

Automate safe operational responses by combining EventBridge events with Systems Manager automation.

Create repeatable incident procedures using detection, triage, mitigation, recovery, and post-incident review.

Define meaningful service objectives and monitoring coverage before production launch.

Secure observability data with least-privilege IAM, log access controls, encryption, and audit trails.

Control observability costs through retention, filtering, metric design, sampling, and storage strategy.

Apply a structured troubleshooting process across compute, networking, storage, databases, and AWS services.