Best monitoring application offered by Amazon
May 01, 2019
Best monitoring application offered by Amazon
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Amazon CloudWatch
In my previous position at a public university, we had various applications that were deployed on the Amazon cloud infrastructure. The student portal and course registration applications were the most widely accessed websites in our portfolio. They were also the most critical in terms of business continuity for the university. We started using Amazon Cloudwatch to aggregate all our application logs for performance monitoring and security alerts. It was used by the product development department mainly.
- Amazon Cloudwatch integrates with all the Amazon deployment infrastructure and provides monitoring capabilities at each step of the pipeline.
- Individual dashboards can be configured to do performance monitoring.
- Alerts can be configured for different performance indicators that can be very useful for event mitigation.
- Presently the application expects scripting experience in order to configure individual scripts for handling performance monitoring and alerts.
- The documentation is not at par for an enterprise offering and hence it makes the learning curve even steeper.
- 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.