Part 4: Monitoring and Operations - Complete Hugo on AWS Guide

In this final part of our Hugo on AWS series, we’ll implement comprehensive monitoring and operational excellence practices. After building your CI/CD pipeline, infrastructure, and security layer, it’s crucial to have visibility into your site’s performance, availability, and user experience. What We’ll Build By the end of this guide, you’ll have: 📊 CloudWatch Dashboards for infrastructure and application metrics 🔔 Intelligent Alerting for availability and performance issues 👥 Real User Monitoring to understand actual user experience 🏥 Automated Health Checks with multi-region monitoring ⚡ Performance Optimization based on data-driven insights 💰 Cost Monitoring and budget alerts Architecture Overview Step 1: CloudWatch Dashboards Infrastructure Monitoring Dashboard First, let’s create a comprehensive dashboard to monitor our infrastructure components.