Audience

Organizations that use AWS searching for a tool to manage their resources and applications

About Amazon CloudWatch

Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and observability service built for DevOps engineers, developers, site reliability engineers (SREs), and IT managers. CloudWatch provides you with data and actionable insights to monitor your applications, respond to system-wide performance changes, optimize resource utilization, and get a unified view of operational health. CloudWatch collects monitoring and operational data in the form of logs, metrics, and events, providing you with a unified view of AWS resources, applications, and services that run on AWS and on-premises servers. You can use CloudWatch to detect anomalous behavior in your environments, set alarms, visualize logs and metrics side by side, take automated actions, troubleshoot issues, and discover insights to keep your applications. CloudWatch alarms watch your metric values against thresholds that you specify or that it creates using ML models to detect anomalous behavior.

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Overall 4.3 / 5
ease 4.3 / 5
features 5.0 / 5
design 4.7 / 5
support 4.0 / 5
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Company Information

Amazon
Founded: 1994
United States
aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/

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Platforms Supported
Cloud
On-Premises
Training
Documentation

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Amazon CloudWatch Product Features

Application Performance Monitoring (APM)

Diagnostic Tools
Full Transaction Diagnostics
Performance Control
Resource Management
Root-Cause Diagnosis
Server Performance
Trace Individual Transactions
Baseline Manager

Automated Testing

Hierarchical View
Move & Copy
Requirements-Based Testing
Security Testing
Unicode Compliance
Parameterized Testing
Supports Parallel Execution
Test Script Reviews

Cloud Cost Management

Resource Usage Reporting
Data Visualization
Data Import/Export
Data Storage
Spend and Cost Reporting
Cost Reduction Optimization
Dashboard
Roles / Permissions

Cloud Management

Billing & Provisioning
Cost Management
Multi-Cloud Management
Performance Analytics
SLA Management
Supply Monitoring
Access Control
Capacity Analytics
Demand Monitoring
Workflow Approval

DevOps

Dashboard
KPIs
Policy Management
Prioritization
Release Management
Troubleshooting Reports
Approval Workflow
Portfolio Management
Timeline Management

IT Infrastructure Monitoring

Health Monitoring
Performance Monitoring
Alerts / Notifications
Reporting / Analytics
Data Movement Monitoring
Point-in-Time Visibility
Capacity Planning
Virtual Machine Monitoring
Multi-Platform Support
Bandwidth Monitoring
Application Monitoring
Configuration Change Management

System Monitoring

Policy-based Automation
Remote Monitoring
Reporting / Analytics
Server Monitoring
Service Configuration Management
Alerts / Notifications
Antivirus Management
Data Backup / Recovery
Device Monitoring
Inventory Management
Patch Management
Risk Analysis

Vulnerability Management

Asset Discovery
Network Scanning
Policy Management
Prioritization
Risk Management
Vulnerability Assessment
Asset Tagging
Patch Management
Web Scanning

Website Monitoring

Availability Testing
Event Logs
Event-Based Notifications
Performance Metrics
Real Time Monitoring
Transaction Monitoring
Uptime Reporting
FTP Monitoring
Mail Server Monitoring
Maintenance Scheduling

Workload Automation

Alerts / Notifications
Audit Trails
Cross-Platform Scheduling
Dashboard
Data Analysis / Visualization
Event-Triggers
Load Balancing
Resource-Based Scheduling
Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
Workflow Foundation Support
Business Process Management

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Amazon CloudWatch Verified User Reviews

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  • Samantha H.
    Digital Marketing Specialist
    Used the software for: Less than 6 months
    Frequency of Use: Daily
    User Role: User
    Company Size: 1 - 25
    Design
    Ease
    Features
    Pricing
    Support
    Probability You Would Recommend?
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    "Detailed Monitor System"

    Posted 2022-02-08

    Pros: When dealing with such a large web system it's incredibly helpful to have CloudWatch doing a lot of the hard work for you and providing the valuable data and actionable items needed.

    Cons: I have found that the support help for this management service is slow to process questions and doesn't have many experts on the team to provide answers to the questions that arise.

    Overall: Overall, Amazon CloudWatch really allows for a unified view of all the cloud resources and applications I need data on.

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  • Punit R.
    Software engineer
    Used the software for: Less than 6 months
    Frequency of Use: Monthly
    User Role: User
    Company Size: 1,000 - 4,999
    Design
    Ease
    Features
    Pricing
    Support
    Probability You Would Recommend?
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    "Better and official tool"

    Posted 2020-05-27

    Pros: Easily manages logs period.
    Easy to install and set up.
    Time and money saving.
    Great dashboard customization options to add metrics.

    Cons: It works only on Amazon affiliated service otherwise is a good tool to have and better than third party software.

    Overall: As per name it watch web services specially AWS. It manages log and relation period in very effective and simple way. It makes your monitoring your host performance very easy. This tool is time and money saving.

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  • Rohan J.
    Software Developer
    Used the software for: 1-2 Years
    Frequency of Use: Weekly
    User Role: User
    Company Size: 100 - 499
    Design
    Ease
    Features
    Pricing
    Support
    Probability You Would Recommend?
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    "Automated Monitoring for AWS"

    Posted 2020-05-26

    Pros: Easy implementation.
    Real time monitoring.
    Alarms based on custom triggers.
    Easy integration with AWS Services like SNS or Lambda.
    Schedule events.
    Cost-effective - only pay for what you use.

    Cons: Needs to mature into a standalone app which can be integrated with other clouds platforms or tools.

    Overall: Amazon CloudWatch is the one of the best monitoring, log aggregation and metrics tracking tool out there and the fact that it is integrates seamlessly with the Amazon Cloud ecosystem makes it highly recommended for any AWS user.

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