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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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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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April 28, 2022
Amazon Cloud Watch Publication
Score 8 out of 10
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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 tracks all the requests, with the IP address and can help in monitoring the requests/ sec. Also helps to filter what requests need to be searched based on different criteria like Access Key, and IP address.
- Tracking all the incoming requests.
- Filtering the requests.
- It can collect and access all your performance and operational data in the form of logs and metrics from a single platform rather than monitoring them in a server, database, or network.
- Integration of Cloud watch to other tools to export data and analyze it on premise.
- Improved formatting of log datas in various formats.
- Better searching capability and narrow down searching capability to controlled users.
February 21, 2022
Best monitoring tool for instances
Amazon CloudWatch assists us in monitoring the performance of our applications, resource use, and overall operation health. Our employees must comply to a CloudWatch threshold anytime they use our amazon EC2 instances, as well as whenever an employee is logged in to the EC2 instance for hours longer than those given to them. Also, they must comply to the threshold if they do anything that could compromise the application's health and operation.
- EC2 instances are easy to integrate into a system
- Simple to use
- Need improvement on dashboards
- Improve altering regarding unusual IP addresses
CloudWatch is used as our main monitoring tool for our EC2 instances and other relevant resources. CloudWatch is used both for online monitoring and [as a] logging tool. We also use CloudWatch dashboard as the main dashboard for the AWS-based infrastructure that we use. CloudWatch is also used as an alarm and notification solution for the health of our EC2 instances.
- Easy to use
- Easy to integrate to a system based on AWS EC2 instances and other AWS resources
- Can trigger alerts
- Integration with non-AWS applications
- Not really online, there's a short delay
- Need to improve in monitoring and alerting about irregular IP address/requests
May 29, 2020
CloudWatch by a Simple Engineer
A few years back we migrated all of our local VM's to AWS. This includes robust VM's that host our Oracle, Mysql, Jenkins, and other development boxes. We also host our web-services which our customers use to receive our data. CloudWatch helps us monitor and alert our dev-ops and development team of any health concerns on those ec2 instances. We also can tell when we need to scale up an instance or even scale down, saving money in the process.
- Gives a well-reported status on your system health, usages, and traffic.
- The ability to place monitors on any or all of our instances while triggering alarms on certain events.
- Easy to set up and create alarms.
- The interface is really well designed.
- Its limitation on only Amazon resources.
- Cost is higher.
- Lack of ability to create graphs on distinct counts and histograms which can make it hard quickly identify specific IP addresses that have a high request volume in a certain period. We have worked around this but a feature on the dashboard would be nice.
May 18, 2019
Easy to implement & cost effective
Amazon Cloudwatch is used specifically for our AWS workloads (providing detailed monitoring of multiple services from EC2, Application Load Balancers, RDS, Elasticsearch As a Service, etc). Cloudwatch API allows us to visualize the monitoring with free open source solutions such as Grafana, which are then used within our NOC across the business. The ease of use and implementation of CloudWatch metrics reduces the implementation time of monitoring and is also very cost effective, as you only pay for what you use.
- CloudWatch API allows integration into multiple monitoring solutions, such as SolarWinds Orion, Site24x7, and Grafana just to name a few we use.
- It's cost-effective and you only pay for what you use.
- Easy implementation, just a few lines which you can rinse and repeat when provisioning workloads from code or a few tick boxes when doing ad-hoc.
- Memory metrics on EC2 are not available on CloudWatch. Depending on workloads if we need visibility on memory metrics we use Solarwinds Orion with the agent installed. For scalable workloads, this involves customization of images being used.
- Visualization out of the box. But this can easily be addressed with other solutions such as Grafana.
- By design, this is only used for AWS workloads so depending on your environment cannot be used as an all in one solution for your monitoring.
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.
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.