DevOps

How to Centralize AWS Monitoring: A Guide to CloudWatch Cross-Account Metrics

It is painfully inefficient to check metrics across a large collection of AWS accounts (development, staging, uat, production, etc.). This is a major time waster, not just a small irritation. In addition to wasting valuable engineering time, you run a much higher risk of missing an alert that could result in a full-blown outage every time...

by Rahul Singh
Tag: cloudwatchmetrics
12-Mar-2026

DevOps

How Rack Awareness in Amazon MSK Saved $36K/Year for a Leading AdTech Company

Introduction Building and deploying applications that use Apache Kafka for real-time data processing is made simple with Amazon MSK (Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka), a fully managed service by AWS. Rack awareness is one overlooked configuration change that can greatly increase fault tolerance and cost effectiveness, even though MSK...

by Karandeep Singh
Tag: cloudwatchmetrics
04-Jun-2025