Amazon CloudWatch vs Lumigo

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Amazon CloudWatch vs Lumigo: What are the differences?

Developers describe Amazon CloudWatch as "Monitor AWS resources and custom metrics generated by your applications and services". 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. On the other hand, Lumigo is detailed as "Monitoring & Debugging for Modern Cloud Applications". With one-click distributed tracing, it lets developers effortlessly find & fix issues in serverless and microservices environments.

Amazon CloudWatch and Lumigo belong to "Cloud Monitoring" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Amazon CloudWatch are:

  • Basic Monitoring for Amazon EC2 instances: ten pre-selected metrics at five-minute frequency, free of charge.
  • Detailed Monitoring for Amazon EC2 instances: seven pre-selected metrics at one-minute frequency, for an additional charge.
  • Amazon EBS volumes: eight pre-selected metrics at five-minute frequency, free of charge.

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

  • End-to-end transaction flow and issue detection
  • Rich debugging information
  • One-click distributed tracing
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Pros of Amazon CloudWatch
Pros of Lumigo
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    Monitor aws resources
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    Zero setup
  • 30
    Detailed Monitoring
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    Backed by Amazon
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    Auto Scaling groups
  • 11
    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
  • 9
    Saves hour debugging
  • 9
    Out-of-box alerts
  • 9
    Detecting and mitigating latencies
  • 9
    Great customer support

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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 Lumigo?

    With a single click and no manual code changes, Lumigo visualizes your entire serverless environment, allowing you to see the full story of every transaction or request from beginning to end.

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