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Pros of Amazon CloudWatch
Pros of Cloudability
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    Monitor aws resources
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    Zero setup
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    Detailed Monitoring
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    Backed by Amazon
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    Auto Scaling groups
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    SNS and autoscaling integrations
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    Burstable instances metrics (t2 cpu credit balance)
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    HIPAA/PCI/SOC Compliance-friendly
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    Native tool for AWS so understand AWS out of the box
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    Cloud usage stats
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    Cloud cost monitoring
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    Track costs
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    Suggestions on which instances should be reserved
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    Ability to build dashboards (public or private)
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    Easy setup
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    Container friendly
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    Datadog and JIRA Integration
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    AWS, GCP, and Azure support
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    Easy, no fuss and great documentation

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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 Cloudability?

      Cloudability aggregates expenditures into accessible and comprehensive reports, helps identify new opportunities for reducing spend and increasing cloud efficiency, offers budget alerts and recommendations via SMS and email, provides APIs for connecting cloud billing and usage data to any business or financial system, and more.

      What is DigitalOcean Monitoring?

      Collect metrics for visibility, monitor Droplet performance, and receive alerts when problems arise in your infrastructure – at no additional cost.

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      What are some alternatives to Amazon CloudWatch, Cloudability, and DigitalOcean Monitoring?
      Datadog
      Datadog is the leading service for cloud-scale monitoring. It is used by IT, operations, and development teams who build and operate applications that run on dynamic or hybrid cloud infrastructure. Start monitoring in minutes with Datadog!
      Splunk
      It provides the leading platform for Operational Intelligence. Customers use it to search, monitor, analyze and visualize machine data.
      New Relic
      The world’s best software and DevOps teams rely on New Relic to move faster, make better decisions and create best-in-class digital experiences. If you run software, you need to run New Relic. More than 50% of the Fortune 100 do too.
      Prometheus
      Prometheus is a systems and service monitoring system. It collects metrics from configured targets at given intervals, evaluates rule expressions, displays the results, and can trigger alerts if some condition is observed to be true.
      AWS CloudTrail
      With CloudTrail, you can get a history of AWS API calls for your account, including API calls made via the AWS Management Console, AWS SDKs, command line tools, and higher-level AWS services (such as AWS CloudFormation). The AWS API call history produced by CloudTrail enables security analysis, resource change tracking, and compliance auditing. The recorded information includes the identity of the API caller, the time of the API call, the source IP address of the API caller, the request parameters, and the response elements returned by the AWS service.
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