Amazon DevOps Guru Cheat Sheet

• Amazon DevOps Guru is a fully managed service that improves application performance and availability.

• Automates the detection and analysis of operational issues.

• Removes the burden of manual monitoring by identifying anomalies and generating actionable recommendations.

• Uses machine learning to analyze application metrics, logs, and events.

• Detects deviations from normal behavior to identify potential problems.

• Provides both reactive insights for current issues and proactive insights to help prevent future incidents.

• Notifies users when a potential problem is identified.

• Provides intelligent guidance to accelerate resolution.

Features

• ML-Driven Insights: Detects anomalies across logs, metrics, events, and traces.

• Proactive + Reactive Insights: Covers services like Lambda, EC2, RDS, DynamoDB, and more.

• Integration Ready: Works with CloudWatch, AWS Config, X-Ray, EventBridge, and Systems Manager OpsCenter.

• Auto Configuration: Automatically monitors new resources, no manual setup needed.

• DevOps Guru for RDS: Detects database-specific issues and provides tailored fixes.

Use Cases

• Proactive monitoring of microservices and serverless apps

• Intelligent database diagnostics (RDS, Aurora)

• Automatic insights into performance degradation

• Reducing MTTR (mean time to resolution)

• Root cause isolation in complex environments

Security

• IAM Integration: Fine-grained access control via AWS IAM.

• Service-Linked Role: Automatically created for DevOps Guru to access data securely.

• No Public Access: Only accessible via authenticated API/Console sessions.

Pricing

• Group A Services (Lambda, S3, DynamoDB): $0.0028 per resource/hour (~$2/mo)

• Group B Services (EC2, RDS, ECS): $0.0042 per resource/hour (~$3/mo)

• API Requests: $0.000040 per call

• Free Tier (3 months):

  • 7,200 hours of resource analysis for each group

  • 10,000 API calls per month

References:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/devops-guru/latest/userguide/welcome.html

https://aws.amazon.com/devops-guru/

https://aws.amazon.com/devops-guru/pricing/