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AWS Observability & Monitoring - Open-Source Architectures

Explore open-source AWS observability & monitoring reference architectures featuring OpenTelemetry, distributed APM profiling, synthetic monitoring, SIEM, and petabyte-scale log analytics. Includes deployment guides, cost insights, and production-ready designs.

Rahul Ladumor
Rahul Ladumor
AWS Observability & Monitoring - Open-Source Architectures

Reliable systems require deep visibility metrics, logs, traces, alerts, and security analytics. Our Observability & Monitoring reference architectures help engineering teams build high-visibility production systems on AWS using OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch, OpenSearch, X-Ray, and serverless patterns.

Each project is free, open-source, deployment-ready, and includes diagrams, IaC code, step-by-step guides & cost info.

Observability Projects Overview

ProjectDescriptionStack
observability-platform-opentelemetryFull Tracing + Metrics + Logging with OpenTelemetryAWS + OTel
apm-distributed-profilingEnd-to-End Application Performance MonitoringCloudWatch + X-Ray
synthetic-monitoring-global50+ Location Uptime & API ProbesLambda + CloudWatch
security-information-event-managementSIEM Platform on AWSOpenSearch + Lambda
log-analytics-petabyte-scaleOpenSearch + S3 Data Lake for Petabyte-scale logsOpenSearch + S3

1. observability-platform-opentelemetry

GitHub - InfraTales/observability-platform-opentelemetry at infratales.com
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GitHubInfraTales

Stack: AWS • OpenTelemetry • ECS/EKS/EC2/Lambda compatible

Purpose

Unified observability platform with full support for metrics + logs + traces across microservices.

Highlights

  • OTel Collector pipelines
  • Vendor-agnostic observability layer
  • Multi-environment dashboards
  • Can integrate Grafana/Prometheus

2. apm-distributed-profiling

GitHub - InfraTales/apm-distributed-profiling at infratales.com
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GitHubInfraTales

Stack: CloudWatch + AWS X-Ray

Features

  • Trace requests across microservices
  • Root-cause latency analysis
  • Profiling for production debugging

3. synthetic-monitoring-global

GitHub - InfraTales/synthetic-monitoring-global at infratales.com
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GitHubInfraTales

Stack: Lambda + CloudWatch Events

Benefit

Simulates traffic from 50+ global locations to detect outages proactively.

4. security-information-event-management

GitHub - InfraTales/security-information-event-management at infratales.com
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GitHubInfraTales

Stack: OpenSearch + Lambda + S3

Used For

Security event correlation & alerting system for compliance-heavy workloads.

5. log-analytics-petabyte-scale

GitHub - InfraTales/log-analytics-petabyte-scale at infratales.com
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GitHubInfraTales

Stack: OpenSearch + S3

Purpose

Massive log ingestion + analysis for enterprise-scale workloads.

Monitoring is not optional; it’s foundational. These reference architectures help teams build resilient systems with real-world observability patterns, open-source repositories, & repeatable IaC deployments.

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