CloudWatch Agent Management UI

Overview • Problem • Solution • Impact • Technical deep dive • Role • Tools

Overview

Delivered the UI for the in-console CloudWatch Agent management experience enabling guided installation and configuration with automatically detected recommendations across 16 AWS regions.

Problem

Agent setup was slow and error-prone: customers took hours to configure agents across fleets; monitoring and performance visibility were limited.

Solution

Built an in-console guided workflow with automatic recommendations, tuned backend concurrency and retries, and restored telemetry pipelines to ensure reliable dashboards.

Impact

• Reduced agent setup time from ~4.7 hours to under 5 minutes (~98% improvement).
• Improved status table load times from ~25–29s to 8–12s for large fleets.
• Restored performance dashboards and increased telemetry reliability.

Technical deep dive

Worked across frontend (TypeScript + React), backend services, and infra (CDK, Lambda). Tuned concurrency and retry buffering, increased log event limits, fixed ingestion/backfill paths, and added end-to-end test coverage.

Role

Lead development of the in-console UI, performance tuning, test improvements, and on-call support for production releases.

Tools

Go, Java, TypeScript, React, CloudWatch, SSM, CDK, Lambda, EC2, EKS, DynamoDB, Terraform, Playwright, GitHub Actions, EC2 Image Builder, OpenTelemetry (OpAMP)

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