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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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Cloudwatch provides quick and easy access to your AWS Service metrics with dashboarding and alerting.

Rating: 7 out of 10
December 18, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use Amazon Cloudwatch to monitor the health of our infrastructure running on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Particularly the health of EC2 instances and RDS to ensure that our ...
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Verified user
Consultant
Amazon CloudWatch7 years of experience

CloudWatch - Centralize logging for your AWS workload.

Rating: 8 out of 10
December 18, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
If you use any AWS service, CloudWatch is a must-have. Imagine having multiple services deployed & running on AWS. The services work interdependently. CloudWatch allows vi...
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Verified user
Team Lead
Amazon CloudWatch3 years of experience

Amazon CloudWatch review from a dev

Rating: 8 out of 10
December 17, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We majorly use Amazon CloudWatch to track and get alerts on the metrics of RDS, Elasticache and other services of AWS in use. We do have it for logging Lamda runs in some case...
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Verified user
Engineer
Amazon CloudWatch3 years of experience

Amazon Cloud Watch Publication

Rating: 8 out of 10
April 28, 2022
Vetted ReviewVerified User
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 a...
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Mayank Thirani
Engineer - Engineering
Senior Software Engineer
Dremio
Amazon CloudWatch1 year of experience

Amazon CloudWatch Review

Rating: 9 out of 10
June 27, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 ala...
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Rob Domenico
Engineer - Information Technology
Senior Systems Administrator
Bentek Inc.
Amazon CloudWatch4 years of experience
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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.

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Amazon CloudWatch Videos

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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 New Relic 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 From Top Reviewers

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Cloudwatch provides quick and easy access to your AWS Service metrics with dashboarding and alerting.

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
December 18, 2024
Verified User
Consultant in Engineering
Internet Company, 1-10 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Amazon CloudWatch
7 years of experience
Pros
  • Cloudwatch allows us to configure thresholds to trigger alerts
  • We can combine different metrics onto dashboards for different stakeholders
  • We can go back and look at trends over time for particular metrics
Cons
  • Dashboards are relatively basic
  • Its not possible, or difficult to write queries to correlate easily between different metrics
  • Searching through logs can be difficult if they are not structured well in advance

CloudWatch - Centralize logging for your AWS workload.

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
December 18, 2024
Verified User
Team Lead in Engineering
Health, Wellness and Fitness Company, 501-1000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Amazon CloudWatch
3 years of experience
Pros
  • Easy to use GUI to browse & query log events.
  • Query & view events spanning multiple log streams.
  • Centralized logging at organization level.
Cons
  • The query syntax could have better examples.
  • Log Insights should support saving a "view" of a certain set of log streams.
  • The whole log group vs log stream hierarchy takes time getting used to.

Amazon CloudWatch review from a dev

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
December 17, 2024
Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Health, Wellness and Fitness Company, 201-500 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Amazon CloudWatch
3 years of experience
Pros
  • Track and trace of metrics
  • Provide easy way to build dashboards
Cons
  • Log retention is quite expensive as querying cost increases as well with log size
  • Query lookup can be slow if the ingest data is of significant volume
  • Dashboarding is simple, however is limited in customizations

Amazon Cloud Watch Publication

Rating: 8 out of 10
April 28, 2022
MT
Mayank Thirani
Senior Software Engineer
Dremio (Computer Software, 201-500 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Amazon CloudWatch
1 year of experience
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Pros
  • 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.
Cons
  • 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.

Amazon CloudWatch Review

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
June 27, 2021
RD
Rob Domenico
Senior Systems Administrator
Bentek Inc. (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Amazon CloudWatch
4 years of experience
View profile
Pros
  • 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.
Cons
  • Possible better visual graphs are basic.
  • More exports of the data types.
  • Easier topics for initial setup to alams data.
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