Beyond Monitoring

Traditional monitoring tells you when something is broken. Observability tells you why—and helps you find problems you didn't know to look for.

We build observability stacks that give you deep visibility into your AWS infrastructure using cloud-native tools: CloudWatch, X-Ray, Amazon Managed Prometheus, Amazon Managed Grafana, and OpenSearch.

The result: faster incident response, proactive problem detection, and the ability to answer questions about your system you've never asked before.

Our Process

A four-phase approach to building world-class observability.

1

Assessment

Current State Analysis

Audit existing monitoring, identify gaps, and understand your infrastructure landscape

Requirements Gathering

Define SLAs, compliance needs, budget constraints, and team capabilities

2

Design

SLO Definition

Define SLIs and SLOs using the VALET framework with error budgets and burn rates

Architecture Design

Design your observability stack with the right tools for your scale and needs

3

Implementation

Infrastructure as Code

Deploy CloudWatch, X-Ray, AMP, AMG, and OpenSearch using Terraform or CDK

Instrumentation

OpenTelemetry setup, CloudWatch Agent config, and application-level tracing

4

Operations

Operational Excellence
  • Dashboard deployment and training
  • Alerting and on-call setup
  • Runbook development
  • Ongoing tuning and optimization
VALET
SLO Framework

The VALET Framework

We use the VALET framework to define meaningful SLOs that actually reflect user experience:

V - Volume

Request throughput capacity. Can your system handle expected load?

A - Availability

Service uptime percentage. What ratio of requests succeed?

L - Latency

Response time at p50, p90, p99. How fast is fast enough?

E - Errors

Error rates by type. What's your acceptable failure rate?

T - Tickets

Manual intervention count. How much operational toil exists?

What We Implement

AWS-native observability tools configured for your environment.

CloudWatch

Metrics, logs, and alarms with anomaly detection. Custom dashboards and Contributor Insights for deep analysis.

X-Ray

Distributed tracing for microservices. Service maps, trace analysis, and latency insights across your architecture.

Amazon Managed Prometheus

Scalable Prometheus-compatible metrics for container workloads. PromQL queries without the operational overhead.

Amazon Managed Grafana

Beautiful dashboards with enterprise features. SSO integration, alerting, and cross-account visibility.

OpenSearch

Log analytics at scale. Full-text search, anomaly detection, and long-term retention for compliance.

OpenTelemetry

Vendor-neutral instrumentation. Collect traces, metrics, and logs with ADOT (AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry).

Migrate from Datadog & New Relic

Third-party observability tools are expensive—often costing more than the infrastructure they monitor. We help you migrate to AWS-native tooling without sacrificing capability.

Typical migration outcomes:

  • 50-85% reduction in observability costs
  • Zero downtime parallel operation during cutover
  • OpenTelemetry future-proof instrumentation
  • Full ownership no vendor lock-in
$28,000+
Average Annual Savings

Engagement Options

Flexible models based on where you are in your observability journey.

Assessment

Understand your current state and get a roadmap for observability excellence.

1-2 Weeks
  • Current state analysis
  • Observability gap assessment
  • Tool and cost audit
  • SLO recommendations
  • Prioritized roadmap
Request Assessment

Migration

Move from Datadog, New Relic, or Splunk to AWS-native tooling.

8-16 Weeks
  • Feature parity analysis
  • Parallel operation setup
  • Agent migration (ADOT)
  • Dashboard recreation
  • Alert migration
  • Cutover support
Plan Migration

AI-Powered Intelligence

Machine learning that delivers genuinely useful insights, not just dashboards.

Anomaly Detection

ML models learn your system's normal behavior and alert on meaningful deviations—no more threshold tuning.

Root Cause Analysis

When incidents occur, AI traces causality across your infrastructure to identify the true root cause, not just symptoms.

Natural Language Queries

Ask questions in plain English: "Why is my API slow?" or "What changed in the last hour?" and get relevant answers.

Predictive Alerting

Identify trends that indicate impending issues—capacity exhaustion, performance degradation—before they impact users.

Alert Correlation

Automatically group related alerts into incidents, reducing noise and helping you focus on what matters.

Runbook Generation

AI-assisted creation of remediation runbooks based on incident patterns and resolution history.

See It In Action

Explore a sample VALET dashboard showing the metrics and visualizations we deploy for clients.

View Sample Dashboard

Ready to See Everything?

Let's discuss how AWS-native observability can give you deep visibility into your infrastructure.

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