AWS re:Invent talk: Instrumenting application stacks in a dynamically scaling environment

Last month at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, attendees experienced an insightful week meeting innovative AWS users and engaging with the Amazon team. The event included a presentation by Mike Fiedler, Director of Technical Operations, titled "Instrumenting Application Stacks in a Dynamically Scaling Environment." In this talk, Mike discussed the importance of gaining visibility into application stack performance to understand its functioning and the challenges of instrumenting components in a dynamically scaling environment. He then demonstrated how to eliminate manual steps in collecting data from an elastically scaling cloud stack by auto-instrumenting hosts for graphing and alerting purposes. To access the metrics graphs shown during the presentation, sign up for a free trial of Datadog. The event was well-organized by Amazon Web Services.