Monitor Java apps running on Tomcat server with Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals (Preview)
AWS Cloud Operations Blog
This article provides a guide on how to monitor Java applications running on a Tomcat server using Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals (Preview).
Specifically, the article covers:
- Solution overview and architecture
- Prerequisites and environment setup
- Enabling Application Signals and configuring the CloudWatch agent
- Instrumenting a Spring PetClinic application and starting Tomcat server
- Visualizing the application using Application Signals services dashboard, service overview, operations, traces, and service level objectives (SLOs)
- Monitoring Tomcat access and server logs with CloudWatch Logs
- Cleaning up resources
- Conclusion
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