Understanding operational health - Operational Excellence Pillar

Understanding operational health

Define, capture, and analyze operations metrics to gain visibility to the activities of operations teams so that you can take appropriate action.

Your organization should be able to understand the health of your operations easily. You will want to define the business goals of your operations teams, identify key performance indicators that reflect those, use then develop metrics based on operations outcomes to gain useful insights. You should use these metrics to implement dashboards and reports with business and technical viewpoints that will help leaders and stakeholders make informed decisions.

AWS makes it easier to bring together and analyze your operations logs so that you can generate metrics, know the status of your operations, and gain insight from operations over time.