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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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$0.005
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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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The most common users of Amazon CloudWatch are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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June 27, 2021
Amazon CloudWatch Review
Our organization has utilized monitoring and events for overall health in the AWS environment. The custom dashboards allow us to manage the display of critical metrics and alarms for any resource in the regional virtual private cloud. This has proven more valuable than setting up another vendor system (Orion by SolarWinds, or Nagios, etc) within AWS space. Having the available alarms and cost metrics all in one place has been a better overall solution since nearly all our systems are cloud-based.
- Alarms on disk and thresholds for CPU and all vitals on ec2 systems.
- Billing and cost metric for advisor alerts to manage bills.
- DNS alerting for and critical issues with resolution to any of our sites.
- Possible better visual graphs are basic.
- More exports of the data types.
- Easier topics for initial setup to alams data.
- Trends and metric graphic, exports for reports.
- Alarms for critical alerting of any resources.
- Billing and cost alarms without using budgets to manage cost changes.
- Positive for alarms and alert notifications once configured/customized.
- Has upfront learning curve, and cost can increase as does the alarm activity and monitoring details you may require.
- Cost-effective for any size organization keeping with AWS and utilizing its native tools is a savings in long-term ROI.
- SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (npm) and Zoho IT Management
We have also tested with SolarWinds NPM, and Zoho Monitors. They seemed to work fine and setup was not as involved as Amazon services, JSON, etc. However, the issue of upgrades made the other solutions incur more downtime overall for maintenance and software upgrades via the vendor's portal or support. This has actually made the decision easier to choose a monitoring metric system that was the best option for our organization.
October 23, 2019
A must-have!
Score 9 out of 10
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We use AWS to sync a lot of files that all the users need. It's a very good tool to keep track of everything, including notifications and we're learning how to use Lambda. I'm very excited whit this acquisition. Dashboard code can be exported, so you can look at the same dashboard in a different AWS account if you need this.
- The rules section is just awesome. You can schedule events with CRON schedules.
- You can keep on track all your AWS services in just one program. The ability to create all types of dashboards for your services is great.
- Very easy to use, set alarms so easily and quick, one of the best things since anyone can create these without having so much advanced IT knowledge.
- To be honest, in my case, there's not too many things that I would need this program to improve since we can do everything we need so far.
- It is costly, but it is very much worth it.
May 01, 2019
Best monitoring application offered by Amazon
In my previous position at a public university, we had various applications that were deployed on the Amazon cloud infrastructure. The student portal and course registration applications were the most widely accessed websites in our portfolio. They were also the most critical in terms of business continuity for the university. We started using Amazon Cloudwatch to aggregate all our application logs for performance monitoring and security alerts. It was used by the product development department mainly.
- Amazon Cloudwatch integrates with all the Amazon deployment infrastructure and provides monitoring capabilities at each step of the pipeline.
- Individual dashboards can be configured to do performance monitoring.
- Alerts can be configured for different performance indicators that can be very useful for event mitigation.
- Presently the application expects scripting experience in order to configure individual scripts for handling performance monitoring and alerts.
- The documentation is not at par for an enterprise offering and hence it makes the learning curve even steeper.
- It's a fully managed service that makes it ideal for developers and integration teams to easily monitor application performance and setup custom alerts when any degradation happens.
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.
- The cost is low in terms of what you get and what it provides.
- Containers and workloads are now monitored and we can see how the computed levels are increasing, which allows us to make adjustments before we have complaints.
- The proactive element of CloudWatch allows us to address issues before they arise.
As CloudWatch is integrated into AWS already, its ready to go. External products such as Nagios require a fair bit of work to actually get the metrics into the dashboards. Products like SolarWinds and Datadog provide quite a high level of very easy integration which allows for the metrics to be viewed within minutes of linking accounts. You can then deploy agents if you want to get even more data. It works very well with these type of monitoring systems.