What is Amazon CloudWatch?

Amazon CloudWatch acts as an all-encompassing platform for monitoring and observability, specifically designed for professionals like DevOps engineers, developers, site reliability engineers (SREs), and IT managers. This service provides users with essential data and actionable insights needed to manage applications, tackle performance discrepancies, improve resource utilization, and maintain a unified view of operational health. By collecting monitoring and operational data through logs, metrics, and events, CloudWatch delivers an integrated perspective on both AWS resources and applications, alongside services hosted on AWS and on-premises systems. It enables users to detect anomalies in their environments, set up alarms, visualize logs and metrics in tandem, automate responses, resolve issues, and gain insights that boost application performance. Furthermore, CloudWatch alarms consistently track metric values against set thresholds or those created by machine learning algorithms to effectively spot anomalies. With its extensive capabilities, CloudWatch is a crucial resource for ensuring optimal application performance and operational efficiency in ever-evolving environments, ultimately helping teams work more effectively and respond swiftly to issues as they arise.

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Company Facts

Company Name:
Amazon
Date Founded:
1994
Company Location:
United States
Company Website:
aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/

Product Details

Deployment
SaaS
On-Prem
Training Options
Documentation Hub

Product Details

Target Company Sizes
Individual
1-10
11-50
51-200
201-500
501-1000
1001-5000
5001-10000
10001+
Target Organization Types
Mid Size Business
Small Business
Enterprise
Freelance
Nonprofit
Government
Startup
Supported Languages
English

Amazon CloudWatch Categories and Features

Workload Automation Software

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

Website Monitoring Software

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

Vulnerability Management Software

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

System Monitoring Software

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

DevOps Software

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

Cloud Management Software

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

Cloud Cost Management Software

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

Automated Testing Software

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

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Software

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

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Amazon CloudWatch Customer Reviews

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  • Reviewer Name: Samantha H.
    Position: Digital Marketing Specialist
    Has used product for: Less than 6 months
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 1 - 25
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    Detailed Monitor System

    Date: Feb 08 2022
    Summary

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

    Positive

    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.

    Negative

    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.

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  • Reviewer Name: Punit R.
    Position: Software engineer
    Has used product for: Less than 6 months
    Uses the product: Monthly
    Org Size (# of Employees): 1,000 - 4,999
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Better and official tool

    Date: May 27 2020
    Summary

    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.

    Positive

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

    Negative

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

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  • Reviewer Name: Rohan J.
    Position: Software Developer
    Has used product for: 1-2 Years
    Uses the product: Weekly
    Org Size (# of Employees): 100 - 499
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Automated Monitoring for AWS

    Date: May 26 2020
    Summary

    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.

    Positive

    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.

    Negative

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

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