Amazon WorkSpaces Applications adds enhanced observability metrics to CloudWatch
Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now publishes enhanced performance and session health metrics to Amazon CloudWatch, providing IT administrators with deeper visibility into application streaming workloads. These new metrics, available at no extra cost, span network performance, compute utilization, and session lifecycle events, allowing for proactive issue identification and troubleshooting to improve end-user experience. Administrators can use these metrics to pinpoint network issues, surface resource bottlenecks, and build custom dashboards or set alarms for rapid detection of connectivity problems. The enhanced metrics are available in all supported AWS Regions.
- →Enhanced observability metrics for WorkSpaces Applications
- →New metrics aid in pinpointing performance bottlenecks
- →Metrics available at no additional cost across supported regions
Features (1) ›
- Enhanced observability metrics for WorkSpaces Applications
Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now publishes additional performance and session health metrics to Amazon CloudWatch, offering IT administrators deeper visibility into application streaming workloads. These metrics cover network performance, compute resource utilization, and session lifecycle events, helping to proactively identify and troubleshoot issues affecting end-user experience.
Enhancements (1) ›
- New metrics aid in pinpointing performance bottlenecks
Specific metrics like TCP retransmission rate and congestion window help identify network degradation, while GPU utilization and memory page hard faults highlight resource bottlenecks. Session lifecycle metrics facilitate setting CloudWatch alarms for rapid detection of connectivity issues and building fleet-wide visibility dashboards.
Notes (1) ›
- Metrics available at no additional cost across supported regions
These enhanced observability metrics are available at no additional cost and are accessible in all AWS Regions where Amazon WorkSpaces Applications is supported. Users can view these metrics in the CloudWatch console, update custom dashboards, or use the automatic dashboard provided by WorkSpaces Applications.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/08/amazon-workspaces-applications-observability-metrics
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