Amazon CloudWatch vs Autotune

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Amazon CloudWatch vs Autotune: What are the differences?

What is Amazon CloudWatch? Monitor AWS resources and custom metrics generated by your applications and services. With Amazon CloudWatch, you gain system-wide visibility into resource utilization, application performance, and operational health. Programmatically retrieve your monitoring data, view graphs, and set alarms to help you troubleshoot, spot trends, and take automated action based on the state of your cloud environment.

What is Autotune? Cloud Diagnostics and Performance Tuning. Acksin is a Cloud and Container aware diagnostics and tuning tool. It uses Machine Learning to find optimizations in your infrastructure so it gets the highest utilization.

Amazon CloudWatch and Autotune can be categorized as "Cloud Monitoring" tools.

Autotune is an open source tool with 116 GitHub stars and 13 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Autotune's open source repository on GitHub.

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Pros of Amazon CloudWatch
Pros of Autotune
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    Monitor aws resources
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    Zero setup
  • 30
    Detailed Monitoring
  • 23
    Backed by Amazon
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    Auto Scaling groups
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    SNS and autoscaling integrations
  • 5
    Burstable instances metrics (t2 cpu credit balance)
  • 3
    HIPAA/PCI/SOC Compliance-friendly
  • 1
    Native tool for AWS so understand AWS out of the box
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    Cons of Amazon CloudWatch
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      Poor Search Capabilities
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      What is Amazon CloudWatch?

      It helps you gain system-wide visibility into resource utilization, application performance, and operational health. It retrieve your monitoring data, view graphs to help take automated action based on the state of your cloud environment.

      What is Autotune?

      Acksin is a Cloud and Container aware diagnostics and tuning tool. It uses Machine Learning to find optimizations in your infrastructure so it gets the highest utilization.

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