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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.
Pros of Amazon CloudWatch
- Monitor aws resources76
- Zero setup46
- Detailed Monitoring30
- Backed by Amazon23
- Auto Scaling groups19
- SNS and autoscaling integrations11
- Burstable instances metrics (t2 cpu credit balance)5
- HIPAA/PCI/SOC Compliance-friendly3
- Native tool for AWS so understand AWS out of the box1
Pros of Autotune
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Cons of Amazon CloudWatch
- Poor Search Capabilities2