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CloudWatch Application Signals now automatically captures errors, performance anomalies, and deployment events

AWS has launched a new feature called Service Events for Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals. This enhancement automatically captures crucial performance data from instrumented applications. It includes snapshots of exception and latency events, along with function-level performance details. Deployment events are also automatically recorded without requiring code modifications. Users can easily identify if recent deployments have caused new exceptions by checking the CloudWatch console. Service Events is accessible to any application already using CloudWatch Application Signals. Instrumenting applications is done through ADOT SDKs or the Amazon CloudWatch Observability EKS add-on. Function-call metrics can be optionally enabled for more in-depth performance insights. This new feature is available across all commercial AWS Regions, supporting Java, Python, and JavaScript. Service Events data is stored as logs, while function call metrics are collected as OpenTelemetry metrics, with standard CloudWatch pricing applied.