Designing resilient multi-region monitoring systems in AWS: A Hybrid Approach with CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana
NovelTek Systems, Digital Banking, USA.
Research Article
World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 2024, 21(03), 2699–2710
Publication history:
Received on 12 February 2024; revised on 23 March 2024; accepted on 28 March 2024
Abstract:
Monitoring the performance and health of applications deployed across multiple AWS regions presents unique challenges, including managing large volumes of data, ensuring high availability, and maintaining fault tolerance. As enterprises scale their operations, monitoring becomes critical to prevent outages and identify system failures quickly. This paper explores the architectural considerations and best practices for designing resilient monitoring systems using Amazon Web Services (AWS). The study emphasizes the importance of a multi-region approach, which guarantees that services remain operational even in the event of regional failures. The paper outlines how to use AWS CloudWatch as the core monitoring service to collect metrics and logs from applications deployed across regions. By setting up CloudWatch Alarms, organizations can automatically trigger actions based on predefined thresholds, such as invoking Lambda functions or sending alerts through Amazon SNS. The study highlights how to integrate CloudWatch with Amazon DynamoDB to ensure distributed data storage with low-latency reads and writes. Furthermore, the paper introduces AWS Step Functions to create workflows that manage complex processes triggered by CloudWatch alarms, ensuring that actions are performed only when necessary. The article explores the use of Prometheus for advanced metric collection and Grafana for real-time dashboards, offering more customizable and detailed views of application performance. The integration of these tools with AWS CloudWatch through the CloudWatch exporter enables more powerful monitoring capabilities. Ultimately, the paper provides practical solutions for building robust multi-region monitoring systems that are scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant, demonstrating that a hybrid approach involving both AWS and third-party tools can deliver enhanced monitoring and alerting systems.
Keywords:
Multi-Region Monitoring; AWS Cloud watch; Fault Tolerance; Scalability; Hybrid Monitoring Architecture
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