# Monitoring and Troubleshooting on AWS: CloudWatch, X-Ray, and Beyond

DevFeed: [Monitoring and Troubleshooting on AWS: CloudWatch, X-Ray, and Beyond](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/monitoring-and-troubleshooting-on-aws-cloudwatch-x-ray-and-beyond-18002.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.guilleojeda.com/aws-monitoring-troubleshooting-cloudwatch-xray>)

Author: Guillermo Ojeda

Published: 2024-03-23T16:33:24Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Guille Ojeda](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/guille-ojeda.md>)

Topics: [Amazon Web Services](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws.md>), [Monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/monitoring.md>), [Amazon CloudWatch Logs](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-cloudwatch-logs.md>), [Amazon EC2](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-ec2.md>), [Cloud Architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-architecture.md>)

Tags: [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [cloud-architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud-architecture.md>), [devops](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/devops.md>), [ec2](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ec2.md>), [logs](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/logs.md>), [metrics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/metrics.md>), [monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/monitoring.md>), [troubleshooting](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/troubleshooting.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial introduces AWS monitoring and troubleshooting, focusing on CloudWatch and X-Ray. It explains how CloudWatch collects operational data such as metrics, logs, and events, and describes using metrics and logs to understand resource performance and investigate application issues.

## Source excerpt

As an AWS user, I'm sure you know that monitoring and troubleshooting are essential for keeping your applications running smoothly. After all, you can't fix what you can't see. But with the sheer number of services and tools available on AWS, it can ...