Monitoring
Runlayer provides comprehensive monitoring and observability capabilities to ensure optimal performance, security, and reliability of your deployment.Monitoring Architecture
Observability Stack
Application Monitoring
Performance Metrics
- Response Times: API endpoint latency and throughput
- Error Rates: HTTP error codes and application exceptions
- Resource Usage: CPU, memory, and disk utilization
- Database Performance: Query execution times and connection pools
Business Metrics
- User Activity: Login rates, session duration, feature usage
- API Usage: Request volumes, rate limiting, quota usage
- Resource Management: Cloud resource provisioning and costs
- Governance Events: Policy violations and compliance metrics
Infrastructure Monitoring
AWS CloudWatch Integration
- EC2/ECS Metrics: Container and instance performance with 365-day log retention
- RDS Monitoring: Enhanced database performance monitoring including CPU, memory, disk queue depth, IOPS, and storage utilization
- Load Balancer: Request distribution, health checks, and 5XX error tracking with configurable thresholds
- Network: VPC Flow Logs for comprehensive network traffic analysis and security monitoring
- Prestart Containers: Dedicated monitoring for database migration and initialization processes
Enhanced RDS Monitoring
- Core Metrics: CPU utilization, database connections, and availability monitoring
- Memory Management: Freeable memory tracking with configurable thresholds (default: 256MB)
- Storage Performance: Disk queue depth monitoring for I/O bottlenecks (default: threshold 5)
- IOPS Monitoring: Read and Write IOPS tracking for performance optimization (default: 1000 IOPS)
- Storage Utilization: Free storage space monitoring to prevent capacity issues (default: 100GB threshold)
- Configurable Alerts: All RDS metrics support custom periods, thresholds, and units
Custom Metrics
- Application Health: Service availability and health checks
- Business KPIs: Custom business logic metrics
- Security Events: Authentication failures and access violations
- Performance Baselines: Historical performance comparisons
Alerting & Notifications
Alert Categories
- Critical: Service outages and security incidents
- Warning: Performance degradation and capacity issues
- Info: Maintenance events and configuration changes
Notification Channels
- Email: Team and individual notifications
- Slack: Real-time team collaboration
- PagerDuty: On-call escalation and incident management
- Webhooks: Custom integration endpoints
Logging & Audit
Centralized Logging
- Application Logs: Structured JSON logging with correlation IDs
- Access Logs: HTTP request/response logging
- Audit Logs: User actions and system changes
- Security Logs: Authentication and authorization events
Log Management
- Retention: Enhanced log retention with 365-day default for production ECS services and migration containers
- Search: Full-text search and filtering capabilities across all CloudWatch log groups
- Export: Log export for compliance and analysis
- Archival: Long-term storage for regulatory requirements
- VPC Flow Logs: Network traffic analysis with configurable traffic type monitoring (ALL, ACCEPT, REJECT)
Enterprise Monitoring Services
For advanced monitoring and observability, including:- Custom Dashboard Development - Tailored monitoring dashboards
- Advanced Alerting - Complex alerting rules and escalation
- Performance Optimization - Monitoring-driven performance tuning
- Capacity Planning - Predictive scaling and resource planning
- SLA Monitoring - Service level agreement tracking
- 24/7 Monitoring - Round-the-clock monitoring and response
Enterprise Monitoring Services
Contact our monitoring experts for comprehensive observability and alerting
setup
Monitoring Best Practices
Metrics Collection
- Golden Signals: Latency, traffic, errors, and saturation
- RED Method: Rate, errors, and duration for services
- USE Method: Utilization, saturation, and errors for resources
- Custom Metrics: Business-specific monitoring requirements
Dashboard Design
- Executive Dashboards: High-level business metrics
- Operational Dashboards: Real-time system health
- Troubleshooting Views: Detailed diagnostic information
- Mobile-Friendly: Responsive design for mobile access
Alert Management
- Alert Fatigue Prevention: Meaningful alerts with proper thresholds
- Escalation Procedures: Clear escalation paths and responsibilities
- Runbook Integration: Automated response procedures
- Post-Incident Reviews: Continuous improvement processes
Performance Baselines
Baseline Metrics
- Response Time: 95th percentile under 200ms
- Availability: 99.9% uptime SLA
- Error Rate: Less than 0.1% error rate
- Throughput: Configurable based on deployment size
Capacity Planning
- Growth Projections: Predictive scaling based on trends
- Resource Optimization: Right-sizing recommendations
- Cost Monitoring: Resource cost tracking and optimization
- Performance Testing: Load testing and capacity validation
Compliance Monitoring
Regulatory Requirements
- Audit Trail: Comprehensive activity logging
- Data Retention: Compliance with retention policies
- Access Monitoring: User access and privilege tracking
- Change Management: Configuration change tracking
For ECS deployment monitoring specifics, see: ECS Deployment & Infrastructure Documentation Contact our monitoring team for custom monitoring solutions, advanced alerting setup, and comprehensive observability implementation.