Targeted business outcomes

Creating a logging and monitoring solution designed for the AWS Cloud is integral for achieving the six advantages of cloud computing. Your logging and monitoring solution should help your IT organization achieve business outcomes that benefit your business processes, business partners, employees, and customers. You can expect the following four outcomes after implementing a logging and monitoring solution aligned with the AWS Well-Architected Framework:

Accelerate operational readiness

Enabling a logging and monitoring solution is an important component of preparing a workload for production support and use. Operational readiness can quickly become a bottleneck if you rely too heavily on manual processes and can also reduce the time to value (TTV) for your IT investments. An ineffective approach also results in limited observability of your workloads. This can increase the risk of prolonged outages, customer dissatisfaction, and failed business processes.

You can use this guide's approaches to standardize and automate your logging and monitoring on the AWS Cloud. New workloads then require minimal manual preparation and intervention for production logging and monitoring. This also helps reduce the time and steps required to create logging and monitoring standards at scale for different workloads across multiple accounts and Regions.

Improve operational excellence

This guide provides multiple best practices for logging and monitoring that help diverse workloads meet business objectives and operational excellence. This guide also provides detailed examples and open-source, reusable templates that you can use with an infrastructure as code (IaC) approach to implement a well-architected logging and monitoring solution using AWS services. Improving operational excellence is iterative and requires continuous improvement. The guide provides suggestions on how to continuously improve logging and monitoring practices.

Enhance operational visibility

Your business processes and applications might be supported by different IT resources and hosted on different compute types, either on premises or on the AWS Cloud. Your operational visibility can be limited by inconsistent and incomplete implementations of your logging and monitoring strategy. Adopting a comprehensive logging and monitoring approach helps you quickly identify, diagnose, and respond to issues across your workloads. This guide helps you design and implement approaches to improve your complete operational visibility and reduce the mean time to resolve (MTTR) failures. A comprehensive logging and monitoring approach also helps your organization improve service quality, enhance end-user experience, and meet service-level agreements (SLAs).

Scale operations and reduce overhead costs

You can scale the logging and monitoring practices from this guide to support multiple Regions and accounts, short-lived resources, and multiple environments. The guide provides approaches and examples to automate manual steps (for example installing and configuring agents, monitoring metrics, and notifying or taking action when issues occur). These approaches are helpful when your cloud adoption matures and grows and you need to scale operational capability without increasing cloud management activities or resources.