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AWS CloudWatch - an easy to use monitoring tool for your AWS instances and resources
May 12, 2021

AWS CloudWatch - an easy to use monitoring tool for your AWS instances and resources

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

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon CloudWatch

CloudWatch is used as our main monitoring tool for our EC2 instances and other relevant resources. CloudWatch is used both for online monitoring and [as a] logging tool. We also use CloudWatch dashboard as the main dashboard for the AWS-based infrastructure that we use. CloudWatch is also used as an alarm and notification solution for the health of our EC2 instances.
  • Easy to use
  • Easy to integrate to a system based on AWS EC2 instances and other AWS resources
  • Can trigger alerts
  • Integration with non-AWS applications
  • Not really online, there's a short delay
  • Need to improve in monitoring and alerting about irregular IP address/requests
  • Online metrics
  • Easy logs search
  • Out of the box "system health" dashboard
  • Reduce time to market - saves time and money for basic monitoring for your infrastructure.
  • Alerts - let you get alerts about relevant metrics.
  • Effectively collect system logs for troubleshooting and alerting.
I believe that CloudWatch is a better solution to use with AWS services and resources in terms of cost and ease of integration with AWS infrastructure services. But keep in mind that Elasticsearch is better at aggregating application-level metrics.
We chose CloudWatch because of its capabilities to integrate and monitor AWS services in almost real-time.

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?

Yes

Did implementation of Amazon CloudWatch go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Amazon CloudWatch again?

Yes

I [would] highly recommend AWS CloudWatch to a colleague if he is using AWS EC2 instances and other AWS services and resources. It is pretty easy to install and use CloudWatch and it can integrate, monitor and log relevant data from different AWS resources. The price is reasonable for the ease of use (you might be able to find cheaper solutions, but it will be more difficult to integrate with all of your AWS services and resources).