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Amazon CloudWatch

Overview

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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Recent Reviews

A must-have!

9 out of 10
October 23, 2019
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 …
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Pricing

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Canaries

$0.0012

On Premise
per canary run

Logs - Analyze (Logs Insights queries)

$0.005

On Premise
per GB of data scanned

Over 1,000,000 Metrics

$0.02

On Premise
per month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/prici…

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

AWS Container Day - Amazon Cloudwatch (Container Insights)

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Product Details

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.

Amazon CloudWatch Screenshots

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Amazon CloudWatch Videos

Amazon CloudWatch: Complete Visibility of Your Cloud Resources and Applications
Governance with AWS

Amazon CloudWatch Competitors

Amazon CloudWatch Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesAmericas, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific

Amazon CloudWatch Downloadables

Frequently Asked Questions

Amazon CloudWatch is a native AWS monitoring tool for AWS programs. It provides data collection and resource monitoring capabilities.

Datadog, Azure Monitor, and Splunk IT Essentials are common alternatives for Amazon CloudWatch.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 8.4.

The most common users of Amazon CloudWatch are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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April 30, 2019

CloudWatch for the win

David Tanner | TrustRadius Reviewer
David Tanner
Senior Software Engineer
LifeOmic (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon CloudWatch allows us to scale our Fargate instances when utilization goes high. This allows us to provision a minimal amount of servers, then when traffic gets high we know that we won't be throttled.

Amazon CloudWatch logs allowed us to stream massive amounts of logs off of devices without hitting any throttling, and then to stream those into S3 or ELK as needed for analysis.
April 06, 2019

Capable logging of AWS metrics and events

Kevin Van Heusen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Kevin Van Heusen
Software Architect
SpringAhead (Internet, 51-200 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
CloudWatch is useful when you need to aggregate information/logs from various AWS resources. If you are interested in application logs, it is less suited for that. For basic alerting and display of AWS metrics over time, the metric graphs are suitable. Overall, if you are looking to track a handful of metrics or log options, it can be a decent solution.
February 02, 2019

AWS CloudWatch: a must for your cloud AWS infrastructure

Verified User
Team Lead in Engineering
Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Nothing better than AWS CloudWatch on AWS for event recording and alarms. It can also be used for cost monitoring. Logs can be retained for long terms. Logs can be ingested into ELK or Splunk using a Lambda or some other mean, then dashboards can be generated. These are very useful features if your organization has 100s of APIs or microservices where they need a unified view, monitoring, and analytics.
January 28, 2019

Amazon CloudWatch - Perfect when melded with other monitoring platforms

Rob Bates | TrustRadius Reviewer
Rob Bates
Public & Private Cloud Senior Engineer
Creditsafe (Financial Services, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
If you have a large cloud estate and need proactive monitoring, dashboards, and alerting then it makes sense to use CloudWatch as its obviously native to AWS. CloudWatch is well suited to anyone that wants to see into their data, their traffic, or their system health. It's the eyes and ears of AWS. It really is best for any scenario where you are hosting infrastructure with AWS and want to keep an eye on it.
December 01, 2018

Simple Log Aggregation and Metrics Out-of-the-Box

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Research Company, 11-50 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
If you are using other AWS products, including EC2, ECS, or Lambda, using CloudWatch is an easy decision. You will get log aggregation and instrumentation out-of-the-box. The lack of log search features may be a sticking point, though your organization does not have to use CloudWatch exclusively. If your platform does not rely on AWS products, CloudWatch should not be considered.
November 21, 2018

Don't Skip Proactive Server(less)-side Monitoring

Kyle Reichelt | TrustRadius Reviewer
Kyle Reichelt
Senior Project Manager
OnMetric (Internet, 11-50 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Well suited if:
  • Your organization is married to the AWS ecosystem
  • You tech stack is reliant on third-party services
  • You use Splunk as your log aggregator (integrates well)
  • You prefer to be proactive about health of your tech stack
Not particularly suited if:
  • You don't use AWS
  • You like to fly by the seat of your pants
September 17, 2018

CloudWatch - Flexible Log Management At A Great Price Point

Brian Dentino | TrustRadius Reviewer
Brian Dentino
Founder
finbox.io (Internet, 1-10 employees)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It is well suited for organizations already using a number of Amazon services, as most of these will integrate very nicely with CloudWatch. If you have detailed log retention requirements, it's quite nice as well since they make it easy to configure retention and export data to S3. The tooling for metric filters and dashboards are very customizable and sufficient for general monitoring but the UX is not the most friendly. If your organization spends a lot of time on business intelligence and performance tracking, you may want to consider a more targeted 3rd-party service.
September 29, 2017

Necessary if you are in the AWS cloud

Verified User
Project Manager in Engineering
Computer Software Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
If you're just starting out with smaller applications in the AWS cloud, then AWS cloudwatch is the right tool. When your company starts growing, along with your software becoming more mature, you may end up piping your logs to another system in order to do more analytics on it and gather better insights.
August 17, 2017

A great tool to get insights into your AWS infrastructure.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Computer Software Company, 51-200 employees
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon CloudWatch is well suited for anyone that's using AWS and wants to see into their data, their traffic, or their system health. It's the eyes and ears of AWS. It really is best for any scenario where you are hosting infrastructure with AWS and want to keep an eye on it.
March 21, 2017

CloudWatch is a great almost-free monitoring solution if you are on AWS

Verified User
Director in Engineering
Sports Company, 51-200 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
CloudWatch is a great low-cost solution for infrastructure monitoring and alerting if you are an AWS customer. You basically get it for free and requires little setup. If you are not on AWS, you can't enjoy the benefits of CloudWatch, so if you are running multi-cloud, need to think about how you will monitor all of your resources and assets.
March 08, 2017

Amazon CloudWatch is an essential tool for governing your system-wide resources and app management

Verified User
Employee in Engineering
Information Services Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It's well suited where you rely on cloud services to run mission critical applications. I think it'd be less suitable in a scenario where the information you store on your servers is what your customers expect you to manage directly.
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