AWS Config vs Metricly

AWS Config vs Metricly: What are the differences?

What is AWS Config? Config gives you a detailed inventory of your AWS resources and their current configuration, and continuously records configuration changes. AWS Config is a fully managed service that provides you with an AWS resource inventory, configuration history, and configuration change notifications to enable security and governance. With AWS Config you can discover existing AWS resources, export a complete inventory of your AWS resources with all configuration details, and determine how a resource was configured at any point in time. These capabilities enable compliance auditing, security analysis, resource change tracking, and troubleshooting.

What is Metricly? A platform that coaches users throughout their cloud journey to safely and easily control their public cloud spending. It is a SaaS-based adaptive monitoring solution that helps organizations monitor cloud services, applications, infrastructure, and public cloud costs.

AWS Config and Metricly can be primarily classified as "Cloud Monitoring" tools.

Some of the features offered by AWS Config are:

• Configuration Visibility
• Fully Managed
• Easy to get started

On the other hand, Metricly provides the following key features:

• Capacity analytics
• Performance analytics
• Demand monitoring