From Dashboards to Decisions

From Dashboards to Decisions: Building an AI-Powered Microservices Troubleshooting System Using Strands Agents, CloudWatch and a locally hosted Llama 3.1 8B model on Amazon EC2 What if your monitoring system could do more than tell you that something is broken? What if it could investigate the evidence, connect related failures, explain what is likely happening, recommend the next action — and, for carefully controlled cases, even remediate the problem? This is the problem I wanted to explore in my microservices environment. ...

September 2, 2025 · 20 min · 4169 words