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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
Twitter
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136,383 employees on LinkedIn®
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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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5.0 out of 5
"Great product"
Allows me to monitor all the resources I need
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Amazon CloudWatch Pros and Cons

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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.

Ramachandra S.
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What do you like best about Amazon CloudWatch?

Almost all the aws services integrate with cloudwatch, where we can store the logs of the resources under a log group.

The best part is cloudwatch provides monitoring features like metrics, alarms, log querying etc..

Also retention period can be set on log groups, which is a useful feature to track only logs of required duration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudWatch?

Cost incurred is huge on the log groups. If not managed properly, one will end paying more for log storage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Especially used for logging and monitoring, where it provides default metrics for aws services to monitor which are handy. Also, one create their own metrics, alarms and dashboards which can be easily managed later. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Yogesh S.
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Amazon CloudWatch?

CloudWatch provides pay-as-you-go pricing model in which users only pay for the metrics, logs, and alarms they use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudWatch?

To get custom metrics and logs from EC2 instances, users need to install and configure the CloudWatch agent on each instance manually that is bit time consuming Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It is cost efficent as it has pay as you go pricing model which actually help me as i need only logs so for that purpose i use cloud watch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gabriel M.
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What do you like best about Amazon CloudWatch?

CloudWatch was good but they didn't provide any update that could be helpful last year. They have a good dashboard to follow your usage but poor documentation or features to provide any new solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudWatch?

With no updates, other solutions are becoming better than CloudWatch. Plus, we have the price that increases a lot while we need to output some data for other tools consuming that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

To provide ipsec vpn connection we used it to monitor the connections and the status that the vpn has. It was used as trigger to warning us about a lost connection or even a bandwidth limit usage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon CloudWatch?

Can monitor the Whole AWS infra (EC2, ECS, Load balancers, etc...)

Provides both Monitoring and Log collections

Very easy to use and implement

Alerts can also be set

Metrics for infra can be found and analyzed

Can be integrated with aws lambda to further ingest the logs with other tools

it used everyday Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudWatch?

Sometimes log groups configuration might be a bit complex

Might need some AWS experience to work with Cloudwatch

Some might argue it can be costly compared to other tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It is used as a monitoring and log tool for the whole aws infra

logs can be organised and viewed

We use it more specificly for ec2 services such as load balancers, ecs, etc... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Manthan G.
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What do you like best about Amazon CloudWatch?

I am an AWS Solution Architect and Use Cloudwatch for Monitoring the events of the EC2 and RDS instances which help me to provide best experience and performance to production environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudWatch?

The matrix view is quit required to be improved like the other tools Grafana and New Relic, so it can help to visually look good regards overall view experience of the logs and events Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Cloudwatch i am using for the logs analysis and performance monitoring which helps me to see the resources utilization and planning the next step to improve the performance and reduce the billing cost for not utilized resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Abhinav S.
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What do you like best about Amazon CloudWatch?

The most amazing feature of cloud watch is that it can be integrated with any of the AWS native services easily. The logs can then be redirected to solutions like Kobayashi for analysis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudWatch?

The graph feature which comes with the cloud watch events is very slow. It takes immense time to load basically due to the large data size.Need improvement in processing there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

With cloudwatch we had a lot of fun from getting niche logs to demistifying the cloud cost Components. We also integrated it with different solutions like kibana and Kafka on the basis of logs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Khijar S.
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What do you like best about Amazon CloudWatch?

This thing provides by cloud provider like amazan web services that is why we get strong customer support it easy to use , simply to set up and give best performance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudWatch?

Over all is good but compare to another Market tool is not that much powerful and advance like garafa and Prometheus we can modified panel can setup alarm We can deploy it's dashboard to another web browser without need to login into cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The best thing it solve like as human beings we can't watch Server all time end it bit tricky to observe every single cluster. To tackled such a problem we use Cloudwatch so that our cluster never get down Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon CloudWatch?

The ability to automate actions based on cloudwatch alerts. This makes operations very effective and efficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudWatch?

Is often confused with Cloudtrail. I think both can be bundled services under a single product to simplify things for customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Cloudwatch sends criticals and important alarms based on various settings and triggers (integration with Cloudtrail helps a lot). This helps in automation of some Ops activities and also taking preventive measures. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Simran R.
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Cloud Engineer
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What do you like best about Amazon CloudWatch?

It provides real-time monitoring and alerting, helping us to take the insights and recommendations so that we can do changes in infrastructure. The basic metrics and logs are free of cost and detailed services are chargeable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudWatch?

The detailed metrics of logs for some services are chargeable and hence the costing can be issue for some. Otherwise, there is no downside of the Amazon CloudWatch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Create dashboards for application logs and monitoring, generate alerts, and integrate with lambda to schedule monitoring log tasks in the cloud. Monitor all incoming requests.Filter queries, use regular expressions to generate metrics.It can collect and access all your performance and activity data in the form of logs and metrics from a single platform instead of monitoring them in a server, database or network. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.