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What do you like best about Amazon CloudWatch?

1. Provides near real-time monitoring and logs

2. Custom queries and dashboard customisations are available

3. Can be easily integrated with AWS lambda, SNS etc for alerting or creating workflows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudWatch?

1. Cost: cost may increasing exponentially if lot of custom events are used.

2. Dashboard customisation are not at par with tools like kibana or grafana.

3. There is a steep learning curve for new developers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon CloudWatch solving and how is that benefiting you?

1. Alerting for AWS resources when CPU utilizations increases beyond threshold or if resources are under stress.

2. Real time monitoring of infrastructure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amazon CloudWatch Overview

What is Amazon CloudWatch?

Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring service for AWS cloud resources and the applications you run on AWS.

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Product Description

Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring service for AWS cloud resources and the applications you run on AWS.


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Year Founded
2006
HQ Location
Seattle, WA
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NASDAQ: AMZN
Total Revenue (USD mm)
$177,866
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Anup K.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"It is a services which monitor and measure the system usage like CPU , disk usage and etc..."
It measure the system performance , and its usages of CPU and disk usages . It is easy to integrate and implement in the system to monitor the se...
Abhinav Kaushal K.
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Abhinav Kaushal K.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Monitoring Made Easy"
UI and functionality to monitor variety of metrics.
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Verified UserEnterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Great product"
Allows me to monitor all the resources I need
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What do you like best about Amazon CloudWatch?

Natively all logs and metrics are available for all resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudWatch?

With trend in market, there are tools which gives out of box so many dashboards, anamolies, alerts, integrations, overall visibility about no# of logs, error count as a single panel which is good for someone who is managing overall infra to get a visibility/status. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon CloudWatch solving and how is that benefiting you?

Not much, any organisation now a days uses 10+ AWS accounts, however for one to monitor, we need single account which gives consilidated view of logs/monitoring. Cloudwatch is so distributed that its impossible for one to get a global view. It could be good for individual user, but not good for a team who manages all the accounts and regions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon CloudWatch?

It measure the system performance , and its usages of CPU and disk usages .

It is easy to integrate and implement in the system to monitor the server and system that are using for long time and It is easy to maintain the system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudWatch?

The frequency of use is decent and moderate. And it have many features and good customer support . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon CloudWatch solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is a good software for monitoring and maintaing the system and software and hardware. It is easy to monitor the hardware part for maintaing and replacing the parts. And manage and provide the fault in the detected part. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon CloudWatch?

CloudWatch helps with handling logs efficiently and debugging effortlessly.

The CloudWatch dashboard is a one stop place for monitoring all of the AWS compute resources.

CloudWatch alarms and triggers can be set to use the AWS resources cost effectively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudWatch?

Amazon CloudWatch has hidden cost with every dashboard and metric that gets created and used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon CloudWatch solving and how is that benefiting you?

CloudWatch helps in monitoring all the AWS resources used in a single place. It helps handling all the logs flowing in the cloud environment.

It helps my client to manage their cost in cloud services effectively as it displays detailed information on the cost involved in all the components of the AWS cloud ecosystem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon CloudWatch?

AWS cloudwatch helps you monitor your aws services in realtime and maintain logs for them. With cloudwatch you can create metrics and charts over these logs and also add thresholds and alarms so that if some anamoly happens you can see the alarm and react quickly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudWatch?

Cloudwatch takes time to learn and to get the full use of it. Also cloudwatch don't support to add aggregation alarms and only support text form alarms and even that' snot very accurate. Cloudwatch log stream is not always on time. It might happen that some even occur and cloudwatch create an event for it after 30 mins and that can cause problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon CloudWatch solving and how is that benefiting you?

Cloudwatch helps to create metrics and charts over aws services like ec2 machines and emr. Cloudwatch also helps us to see in details taht what heppend to the aws service in case if something fails and that gives us better understaing of our system and make it even more robust. It also helps us to create alarms and help us to handle problems in quciker way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon CloudWatch?

Logging and API to retrieve it, easy to use and configure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudWatch?

so far so good, just need some improvement on API Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon CloudWatch solving and how is that benefiting you?

Get and see the logs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon CloudWatch?

For me Amazon CloudWatch is complete package for the watching the Servers, networking infrastructure and many more things. With the Amazon CloudWatch your automation tracking is very easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudWatch?

The one thing i didn like about the Amazon CloudWatch is that its really difficult to integrate Amazon CloudWatch wit other cloud services providers like GCP and Azure, Also sometime its difficult fetch the logs also from the Amazon CloudWatch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon CloudWatch solving and how is that benefiting you?

Amazon CloudWatch is Amazon CloudWatch major problem of carrying out thr logs so they are fetching the logs from the servers for us and its really really used to my organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon CloudWatch?

Out of the box for all AWS services, it's really easy to use and to integrate. You can easily implement business metrics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudWatch?

It can be a bit expensive, if not manage right, especially metrics Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon CloudWatch solving and how is that benefiting you?

I makes easy to manage logs and metrics and to set alarms on these. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Abhinav Kaushal K.
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What do you like best about Amazon CloudWatch?

UI and functionality to monitor variety of metrics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudWatch?

Costing can be more user friendly specially for smaller scale uses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon CloudWatch solving and how is that benefiting you?

CloudWatch allows easy integration with different services, provides interface for exploring and aggregating metrics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon CloudWatch?

What I like most about Amazon CloudWatch is its user-friendly UI, and easy to setup. It provide not only to monitoring our cloud infrastructure but also it provides to intregrate with other aws resources. That attracts me to it use everyday. It also provide customer support so we do not need to worry about technical error. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudWatch?

What I dislike about Amazon CloudWatch is so rare to point out because it is very useful for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon CloudWatch solving and how is that benefiting you?

I did not know that Amazon CloudWatch can integrate with AWS Lambda function for example put the server auto sleep and wake. So I have to open all the time because I do not want to miss or re configure back if I want to use it and that cost me alot. After using AWS CloudWatch I could monitor my cloud infrastructure and put the server auto sleep and start. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon CloudWatch?

-Since it is part of the AWS services its very easy to gather insights and data from across all AWS tools

-Easy to setup

-Provides extensive reports, monitoring status in real time which can be very helpful for critical application and resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudWatch?

-Not much but I think filtering events can be little better Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon CloudWatch solving and how is that benefiting you?

Cloudwatch helps with critical resources monitoring, resource utilization, resource access logs which can be really helpful for the network and resource security. We can also forward events from cloudwatch to S3 or other SIEM tool for auditing purpose. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.