Overall Satisfaction with Amazon CloudWatch
We use Amazon CloudWatch across IT to trigger alerts, handle scaling, and for logging.
- We are able to capture all of our Lambda logs through CloudWatch and ship them off to another provider for analysis.
- The alerting features allow us to scale certain services when needed so we don't have to do it manually, or over provision.
- Monitoring resource utilization allows us to see what is going on in our RDS services, so we can test optimizations and fixes.
- The auto refresh feature could use some work so that it doesn't kick you back to the main dashboard.
- The search features aren't as well developed as other areas in the AWS console.
- It would be nice to be able to create a custom dashboard of multiple widgets like resource stats and alarms on one page.
- It frees up developer time from needing to create/monitor a logging solution.
- It allows for quick alerting when resources are in a bad state.
- We are able to quickly see what is going on with an alert with data in one place.