AWS DevOps Monitoring Dashboard

Publication date: April 12, 2022 (Diagram history)

This architecture automates the process of ingesting, analyzing, and visualizing continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) metrics. This architecture can also be deployed on AWS using an AWS CloudFormation template that launches, configures, and runs the AWS services required to deploy this solution using AWS best practices for security and availability.

AWS DevOps Monitoring Dashboard

1. An Amazon EventBridge events rule detects the events based on predefined event patterns and then sends the event data to an Amazon Data Firehose delivery stream. One event rule is created per event source. For activities in AWS CodeBuild, a CloudWatch metric stream is set up to capture CloudWatch metrics and deliver them to a Firehose delivery stream. For GitHub push events, an Amazon API endpoint is created to post these events and deliver them to a Firehose delivery stream.

2. An Amazon EventBridge events rule is also created to capture events from an Amazon CloudWatch alarm that monitors the status of an CloudWatch synthetics canary, if you have set up the canary and alarm in your account. This alarm is needed to gather data for calculating Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) metrics.

3. Firehose uses an Lambda function for data transformation. The Lambda function extracts relevant data to each metric and sends it to an Amazon S3 bucket for downstream processing.

4. The data in Amazon S3 is linked to an Amazon Athena database, which runs queries against this data and returns query results to QuickSight.

5. QuickSight obtains the query results and builds dashboard visualizations for your management team.

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Change	Description	Date
Reference architecture updated	Updated for technical accuracy	April 12, 2022
Initial publication	Reference architecture diagram first published.	August 9, 2021

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