Application management
Investigate and remediate application issues in a single pane of glass.
An application is a logical group of AWS resources that you want to
operate as a unit. Whether you take an approach of
“you
build it, you run it
Start
To get started with application management, use AWS Systems Manager Application Manager, Service Catalog AppRegistry, AWS CloudFormation, or AWS Launch Wizard to specify the AWS resources that define your application. Applications can be defined as custom applications using a combination of tags, AWS Resource Groups, or AWS CloudFormation stacks. Application Manager automatically imports metadata about resources that were created by AWS CloudFormation, AWS Launch Wizard, Amazon ECS, and Amazon EKS. Application Manager then displays those resources in predefined categories.
Once you have defined your application, you can view information about it. The Application Manager overview displays a summary of Amazon CloudWatch alarms, OpsItems, Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights, and AWS Config compliance and runbook history. To start with, focus on cost and monitoring.
Use the alarms that you have already created following the Observability guidance in this document to automatically visualize alarms in Application Manager. Enable Application Insights with the application that you have created to visualize additional alarms created automatically and to view insights using intelligent problem detection, metric anomalies, and log errors.
Log groups related to your application are listed in Application Manager, allowing you to see all of these log groups in one place, with a link to the log group itself for further analysis. The resources view in Application Manager lets you view all of the AWS resources associated with your application as well as viewing the cost of your application.
Advance
Once you have organized your applications and set up patch management, you will be able to view AWS Systems Manager State Manager association compliance information, as well as other State Manager associations related to your application. If you have enabled AWS Config, you will be able to see Config rules compliance and Config Resource compliance, as well as the number of configuration changes that have been made to that resource.
OpsItems can also be viewed in the context of your application. The OpsItems tab displays OpsItems for resources in your application.
Excel
As described in the incident and problem management section, you can remediate issues in your application using Automation runbooks. You can start any runbook filtered by the type of resource used in your application, or you can choose the name of the resource in your application, which will then filter runbooks by that resource type.