CloudWatch Application Signals Adds Automatic Service Event Capture
Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals now automatically captures exception, latency, function-level performance, and deployment events without code changes. This helps users quickly identify deployment-related errors and performance issues. The feature is available to applications with Application Signals enabled via ADOT SDKs or the EKS add-on, and supports Java, Python, and JavaScript in all commercial AWS Regions.
- →Automatic capture of exceptions, performance, and deployment events
- →Deeper performance visibility with function-call metrics
- →Availability and prerequisites
Features (1) ›
- Automatic capture of exceptions, performance, and deployment events
Service Events for CloudWatch Application Signals automatically captures exception and latency event snapshots, function-level performance data, and deployment events from instrumented services. This allows users to quickly identify if a deployment has introduced new exceptions by navigating to the Errors section for a service in the CloudWatch console.
Enhancements (1) ›
- Deeper performance visibility with function-call metrics
Customers can optionally enable function-call metrics for deeper performance visibility within Application Signals. This data is captured as OpenTelemetry metrics, complementing the log-based capture of Service Events.
Notes (1) ›
- Availability and prerequisites
Service Events is available in all commercial AWS Regions for applications with CloudWatch Application Signals enabled through ADOT SDKs or the Amazon CloudWatch Observability EKS add-on. Supported languages include Java, Python, and JavaScript. Standard CloudWatch pricing applies.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/06/cloudwatch-service-events/