# DRHCOPS05-BP01 Understand monitoring requirements in your Local Zones
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 Focus on similar observability and alerting as in an Availability Zone. 

 **Desired outcome:** Establish monitoring capabilities that align with the architecture and deployment model of workloads within an Availability Zone, ensuring comprehensive visibility and observability across the entire stack. 

 **Benefits of establishing this best practice:** Implementing monitoring solutions enables granular monitoring, accurate detection of issues, and targeted troubleshooting, ultimately improving operational efficiency. 

 **Level of risk exposed if this best practice is not established:** High 

## Implementation guidance
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 Use the same mechanism for your workloads as you do in [Availability Zones](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/framework/ops-04.html) by implementing monitoring and alerting at infrastructure and application layer through CloudWatch or third-party tools.