Amazon Cloud Watch Publication
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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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$0.0012
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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
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- No setup fee
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- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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AWS Container Day - Amazon Cloudwatch (Container Insights)
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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.
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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April 28, 2022
Amazon Cloud Watch Publication
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- It is a monitoring and observability service built for DevOps engineers, developers, site reliability engineers (SREs), and IT managers.
- It provides you with data and actionable insights to monitor your applications, respond to system-wide performance changes, and optimize resource utilization.
- It can be used to detect anomalous behavior in your environments, set alarms, and visualize logs and metrics side by side.
February 21, 2022
Best monitoring tool for instances
- Set up alerts for important metrics
- Collect system logs efficiently
December 20, 2021
A multipurpose tool for cloud services users, best for monitoring all the cloud resources
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Monitoring our cloud resources is very easy with CloudWatch
- CloudWatch helps trigger alerts wherever configured for our resources
June 27, 2021
Amazon CloudWatch Review
- 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.
- It has helped a lot to identify the corner scenarios which may happen once in a while and bound to skip from dev or stag environment
- It has helped a lot by triggering billing alarm
- No negative impact has been observed till date
- Reduce time to market - saves time and money for basic monitoring for your infrastructure.
- Alerts - let you get alerts about relevant metrics.
- Effectively collect system logs for troubleshooting and alerting.
December 15, 2020
Best Choice For Your AWS Structure
- Easy to install alarms
- Particular alarms
May 29, 2020
CloudWatch by a Simple Engineer
- Scalability. Saving us cost when we can downgrade underperforming instances.
- Great monitoring and peace of mine without always having to check logs to any services failure.
- Support cost is high. It would be nicer if documentation would be easier to follow.
May 13, 2020
Watching the AWS Cloud is easier with CloudWatch
- Through the implementation of intelligent alerting, we were able to bring down response time to application issues by 5%.
- Through understanding application infrastructure metrics better, we were able to optimize infrastructure, bringing down AWS infrastructure costs by 15%.
March 30, 2020
CloudWatch provides the basics, but you may need more.
- Uptime/downtime knowledge has provided increased awareness to ensure SLAs are achieved.
- Generally speaking, the value of the service was quite high compared to money spent, however was unpredictable.
February 13, 2020
You will enjoy using AWS CloudWatch
- When using docker, this is the best way for capturing the logs
January 06, 2020
Metrics made easy
- It's very fast and effortless to set-up, hence the fast ROI.
- Inexpensive and cloud-based.
November 07, 2019
A cloud service offering monitoring with integration features for cost and scalability
- With EC2 Autoscale integration we reduced costs in new EC2 instances
- Detailed cost management gave us enough data to make the right decisions.
- With CloudWatch API we gathered data points for further analysis and forecast utilization.
November 01, 2019
AWS CloudWatch is the foundation for your AWS Security Automation
- Using CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and CloudWatch events allows you to create Security Automation, which means more security, quicker security, and more efficient management of it.
October 23, 2019
A must-have!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- It is costly, but it is very much worth it.
October 22, 2019
Review of AWS CloudWatch
- In AWS deployed applications, we don't need to develop our own monitoring system.
- We are comparing CloudWatch with our own monitoring system.
- It helps us know the applications are in a bad state early.
May 18, 2019
Easy to implement & cost effective
- Cloudwatch costs are below 0.5% of our AWS spend providing a very cost effective monitoring tool.
- We're able to integrate Cloudwatch metrics into our existing monitoring solutions (Site24x7/Solarwinds/ Grafana)—all for free!
- Due to no memory metrics, we do have to install agents on some workloads.
May 09, 2019
Great Monitoring Tool for AWS Applications
- Improved our ability to monitor resources.
- Shortened our response time to unhealthy services.
- Helps us keep a high in-service rate, so we can deliver stable service.
May 07, 2019
Change CronJob with CloudWatch
- Easier to adjust than Cron Job.
- Save time in setting watch logs or debugs.
May 05, 2019
AWS CloudWatch Review
- There's a lower cost to trigger ASG using CloudWatch Events.
- Serverless implementation.
- It's a managed solution.
- Has helped consolidate AWS alerting into one place and saved us on a handful of occasions.
- Expensive
May 03, 2019
Amazon CloudWatch Review
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Improved our application maintenance.
May 01, 2019
Best monitoring application offered by Amazon
- 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.
- CloudWatch is liked by the IT guys, in that it makes their job easier. Whether that actually is a positive ROI is debatable. It doesn't seem like it.
- CloudWatch could have a positive ROI in the sense that IT professionals consider it an integral tool to streamline their management of IT resources.
- Cloud is not a positive ROI in the sense that it doesn't appear to have saved any money on the personnel or software side.
- CloudWatch has helped us reduce time to issue resolution.
- CloudWatch has helped us allow non-technical users to monitor and have insight into the infrastructure.
- CloudWatch helps us determine how best to scale and size our infrastructure.