-
What are some alternatives to Amazon CloudWatch?
Datadog, Splunk, New Relic, Prometheus, and AWS CloudTrail are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Amazon CloudWatch. "Monitoring for many apps (databases, web servers, etc)" is the primary reason why developers choose Datadog.
Datadog
Unify logs, metrics, and traces from across your distributed infrastructure.
Why people like Datadog:
- Monitoring for many apps (databases, web servers, etc)
- Easy setup
- Powerful ui
- Powerful integrations
Splunk
Search, monitor, analyze and visualize machine data
New Relic
SaaS Application Performance Management for Ruby, PHP, .Net, Java, Python, and Node.js Apps.
Why people like New Relic:
- Easy setup
- Really powerful
- Awesome visualization
- Ease of use
Prometheus
An open-source service monitoring system and time series database, developed by SoundCloud
Why people like Prometheus:
- Flexible query language
- Powerful easy to use monitoring
- Dimensional data model
- Active and responsive community
AWS CloudTrail
Record AWS API calls for your account and have log files delivered to you
Why people like AWS CloudTrail:
- Very easy setup
- Good integrations with 3rd party tools
- Very powerful
- Backup to S3
Stackdriver
Monitoring, logging, and diagnostics for applications on Google Cloud Platform and AWS
Why people like Stackdriver:
- Monitoring
- Tracing
- Logging
- Alerting
stts
Open source macOS app for monitoring the status of cloud services (AWS, Heroku, Twilio, etc)
Seamless Infrastructure Monitoring
Why people like DigitalOcean Monitoring:
- Easy, no fuss and great documentation
AWS Config
Config gives you a detailed inventory of your AWS resources and their current configuration, and continuously records configuration changes
Why people like AWS Config:
- Backed by Amazon
- One stop solution
Cloudability
Cloud management made easy
Why people like Cloudability:
- Cloud usage stats
- Cloud cost monitoring
- Track costs
- Suggestions on which instances should be reserved
CloudCheckr
Analyze your AWS deployment to track resources, control costs, maintain security, and predict future needs.
Why people like CloudCheckr:
- Powerful S3 reports
- Easy setup
- CloudTrail integration
- Powerful Reserved Instances reports
Opsee
Continuously test your services and deploy with confidence. Effortless AWS monitoring, built for developers.
StatusGator
Instant status overview of all the services you depend on including Heroku, Slack, Stripe, New Relic and 50 others
Autotune
Cloud Diagnostics and Performance Tuning
Statusbot
API for monitoring all status pages