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A great tool to get insights into your AWS infrastructure.
August 17, 2017

A great tool to get insights into your AWS infrastructure.

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon CloudWatch

Cloudwatch is a great way to get information about all your hardware in Amazon Web Service. It allows you to know the state and health of all of your infrastructure and you can alert, graph, and monitor the health and state of every piece. It solved the issue of not knowing the state of your system.
  • Monitor
  • Alert
  • Visibility
  • Amazon-only
  • cumbersome compared to other solutions
  • not 100% customizable.
  • Cheap
  • Part of AWS/Cloudformation/Terraform already.
Amazon CloudWatch stacks up against the competition pretty well. I personally like more customizable tools like Sensu and Graphite/Grafana to alert and visualize data but there are some pieces of infrastructure and some data points you just can't get without using Amazon CloudWatch. I usually use a hybrid of tools.
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Elastic MapReduce, Amazon Aurora, Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
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.