We can’t prevent all types of failures in the cloud world, but what we can spot them as soon as possible and react quickly by applying observability. If you have tried CloudWatch already, you probably know how powerful but also complex it can be.

In this talk, Diren Akkoc will approach the topic of observability for serverless applications on AWS before presenting ‘SLIC Watch’, an open-source toolkit which automates away most of the pain of setting up dashboards and alarms in CloudWatch – making it easier to achieve greater levels of observability.