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Amazon Cloud watch is primarily used for watching all the requests coming into any of the AWS services our organization is using. It can …
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What is Amazon CloudWatch?
Amazon CloudWatch is a native AWS monitoring tool for AWS programs. It provides data collection and resource monitoring capabilities.
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Over 1,000,000 Metrics
$0.02
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What is Amazon CloudWatch?
Amazon CloudWatch is a native AWS monitoring and observability service
built for DevOps engineers, developers, site reliability engineers (SREs), and
IT managers. CloudWatch provides users with data and actionable insights to
monitor applications, respond to system-wide performance changes, optimize
resource utilization, and get a unified view of operational health. CloudWatch
collects monitoring and operational data in the form of logs, metrics, and
events, providing users with a unified view of AWS resources, applications, and
services that run on AWS and on-premises servers. CloudWatch can be used to
detect anomalous behavior in environments, set alarms, visualize logs and
metrics side by side, take automated actions, troubleshoot issues, and discover
insights to keep your applications running smoothly. With Amazon CloudWatch, there is no up-front commitment or minimum fee; users simply pay for what they use.
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Amazon CloudWatch Competitors
- Datadog
- Azure Monitor
- Splunk IT Essentials
- New Relic
- AppDynamics
- Dynatrace
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
Amazon CloudWatch Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Countries | Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific |
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Amazon CloudWatch is a native AWS monitoring tool for AWS programs. It provides data collection and resource monitoring capabilities.
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December 15, 2020
Best Choice For Your AWS Structure
We use Cloudwatch to see our EC2 instances and other AWS resources (like LoadBalancer, Elasticache, RDS, etc.). We designed custom dashboards for monitoring our performance and response time. You can create a particular alert with Cloudwatch alarms, and you can see your logs in Cloudwatch logs.
- Stability and availability
- Easy usage
- Integration with other AWS Resources
- Price is higher than other 3rd party monitoring tools and log shipping tools.
- You can see 5-minute log intervals with standard monitoring.
March 30, 2020
CloudWatch provides the basics, but you may need more.
I used Amazon CloudWatch to monitor specific events in the AWS cloud. Out of the box CloudWatch provides events to monitor, but it also allows you configure other specific events through a UI selection screen. We created a group of events to monitor autoscaling events such as launches, terminations and changes. Also setup to monitor API calls to monitor thresholds, volumes and usage. This monitoring allowed us to determine if the application was up/down/stressed so that we could take action or cause activities to occur like launching additional instances.
- Monitoring application state - up/down/stressed.
- View of API calls - threshold, volumes, response times.
- Rules-based functionality to allow for automatic triggering of Lambda functionality.
- CloudWatch doesn't monitor things outside of the cloud, it's not what it is intended for.
- Billing is confusing as it bills on Dashboard, metrics called, custom metrics, etc. Hard to forecast the charge.
- Paradigm is confusing sometimes and difficult to learn.
April 30, 2019
Excellent Monitoring!!
We use CloudWatch to monitor logs of cloud services and other infrastructure. Mostly being used by our development and engineering departments. It gives us a good idea about the health of infrastructure and helps us prioritize maintenance activities.
- Easy integration with other services.
- Seamless Configuration.
- Variety of matrix, graphs and dashboards.
- Support to third party libraries.
- User Interface can be improved.
- High cost of implementation.
- No Phone notifications.
We use CloudWatch to monitor all of our cloud estates. We also integrate Cloudwatch into our main monitoring platform (SolarWinds) which allows us to pull the CloudWatch metrics down into SolarWinds. This is used specifically by our IT department, and our devs tend to use the native dashboard with CloudWatch. Overall it gives us visibility into our instances running in AWS and also provides us with alerting, which we also integrate into Slack.
- Allows integration into non-native products (SolarWinds, Nagios, etc).
- Proactive monitoring and recommendations.
- Alerting and dashboards.
- There is only a limited amount of credits available each month when pulling metrics into other applications. We have had to use larger polling intervals as a result.
- Unable to export alert data into 3rd party data warehouses for record keeping.
- Learning curve is slightly steep and there isn't much automation in terms of setting alerts up.
November 21, 2018
Don't Skip Proactive Server(less)-side Monitoring
We use Amazon Cloudwatch in a variety of ways, from monitoring the performance and validation success/failures of our ETL (extract, transform, and load) processes, our Lambda Services, our EC2 instances, our RDS instances, as well as our Redshift instance. Certainly we're using Amazon Cloudwatch to monitor day-to-day server-side activities, but the really impressive capabilities lie in its ability to both diagnose issue, as well as to trigger automated remediation.
- Lambda process monitoring, particularly useful when you're relying on third-party services.
- Active monitoring RDS (set thresholds so we know before a database runs out of space)
- Auto-requisitioning of additional resources
September 17, 2018
CloudWatch - Flexible Log Management At A Great Price Point
We use Amazon CloudWatch to aggregate and retain logs across all of the different services that make up our infrastructure. It is primarily used across our engineering and dev ops departments. Using CloudWatch logs allows us to address compliance issues associated with log retention because it is very easy to configure an expiration (if any) for log files. We also use CloudWatch metrics to monitor important KPIs and performance metrics for our business.
- Managing log retention periods is very simple with CloudWatch, and can be configured on a per-group basis.
- Monitoring host performance is very easy when coupled with the CloudWatch Agent on an EC2 instance. A simple installation and configuration replaces an entire 3rd-party host monitoring stack.
- CloudWatch is flexible enough for not just host monitoring, but application monitoring as well. It's easy to pipe local logs up to CloudWatch and extract structured data in order to monitor and set alerts on custom app metrics.
- Unfortunately, the CloudWatch dashboard does not provide the ability to create histograms of discrete counts. This makes it difficult to, for instance, use CloudWatch to quickly identify specific IP addresses that have a high request volume in a certain period.
- The UX for creating a custom metric from a CloudWatch log group is somewhat confusing. Every time I need to create a new metric I find myself fumbling around the interface for a few minutes while I try to remember how to do it.
- The alerting options for CloudWatch are not as extensive as are available with some 3rd-party services.