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CloudWatch is an excellent tool for an AWS hosted infrastructure
April 30, 2019

CloudWatch is an excellent tool for an AWS hosted infrastructure

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon CloudWatch

We use CloudWatch across the entire organization to monitor the performance of our infrastructure as well as alerts on issues and problems.
  • CloudWatch integrates flawlessly with any AWS object like load balancers, EC2 instances, target groups, etc.
  • CloudWatch is extremely easy to create graphs and charts with.
  • Creating Dashboards on CloudWatch is as simple as dragging and dropping selected charts.
  • It is not always easy to understand what metric type one should use with CloudWatch metrics. Averages, sums, min, max, etc. are not always readily apparent and CloudWatch does not stop you from creating useless metrics.
  • CloudWatch cannot show milliseconds, it will instead show numbers in 'e' notation.
  • Many of the standard metrics provided by AWS into cloudwatch cannot see below 1 minute intervals.
  • 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.
CloudWatch is incredibly cheap compared to New Relic and much more intuitive and easy to use than Nagios. It requires no setup, expertise, or otherwise extensive knowledge to use.
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Anyone using AWS to host any of their infrastructure should be leveraging CloudWatch for notifications, alerts, alarms, auto-scaling, metrics gathering and historical lookback, and performance analysis.