You will enjoy using AWS CloudWatch
February 13, 2020

You will enjoy using AWS CloudWatch

Diego Turcios Lara | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon CloudWatch

We used Amazon CloudWatch in our company for capturing the logs of our applications. We decided to use this AWS service as all of our infrastructure is based in Amazon. We saw a high impact in using it. We really like that we can export our docker logs to AWS, which is great for developers, this way they can check any issue they encounter in CloudWatch.
  • Easy to use
  • Alarms available
  • A little bit expensive
  • When using docker, this is the best way for capturing the logs
We thought about using Logstash for capturing our data. But we encountered several configuration issues, so as I mentioned before, if you're using AWS, the best way to do this is using the service they offer, as you don't encounter configuration problems. This is why I consider Logstash being a great option not the best for working with AWS.
AWS has different levels of support, the basic level isn't really the great stuff. But take into consideration millions of users use this cloud provider, so finding help in open forums is really good. Most of the problems you encounter are easy to find and this is really good for the end user.

Do you think Amazon CloudWatch delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Amazon CloudWatch's feature set?

Yes

Did Amazon CloudWatch live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Amazon CloudWatch go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Amazon CloudWatch again?

Yes

Amazon CloudWatch is great. If you're using AWS consider using it. You can set up alarms in case there's an error in your application. Basically all AWS infrastructure turns around AWS, so it will be really easy to use and configure. It helps you to monitor your services and keeps you updated on the status of it, if it's well configured.

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