The text discusses the use of Amazon CloudWatch and the ActiveMQ Web Console to monitor Amazon MQ metrics and logs. CloudWatch, a comprehensive monitoring solution, allows visualization and alerting on metrics from Amazon MQ and other AWS services, as well as collecting and analyzing logs, enabling users to set alarms for potential issues with the broker's performance. The ActiveMQ Web Console, built into each Amazon MQ broker, provides a basic view of certain metrics but lacks the ability to graph trends or create alerts. The text emphasizes the importance of a monitoring platform that offers complete visibility across the messaging infrastructure, hinting at the potential use of Datadog for in-depth analysis in a subsequent part of the series.