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  5. Amazon CloudWatch vs NetData

Amazon CloudWatch vs NetData

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Overview

Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon CloudWatch
Stacks12.0K
Followers8.2K
Votes214
Netdata
Netdata
Stacks226
Followers392
Votes82

Amazon CloudWatch vs NetData: What are the differences?

Developers describe Amazon CloudWatch as "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. On the other hand, NetData is detailed as "Real-time performance monitoring, done right!". Netdata is distributed, real-time, performance and health monitoring for systems and applications. It is a highly optimized monitoring agent you install on all your systems and containers.

Amazon CloudWatch and NetData are primarily classified as "Cloud Monitoring" and "Monitoring" tools respectively.

"Monitor aws resources" is the top reason why over 70 developers like Amazon CloudWatch, while over 8 developers mention "Free" as the leading cause for choosing NetData.

NetData is an open source tool with 39.4K GitHub stars and 3.48K GitHub forks. Here's a link to NetData's open source repository on GitHub.

Airbnb, 9GAG, and Asana are some of the popular companies that use Amazon CloudWatch, whereas NetData is used by Augmedix, Kistriver, and Veaver Inc.. Amazon CloudWatch has a broader approval, being mentioned in 721 company stacks & 334 developers stacks; compared to NetData, which is listed in 8 company stacks and 11 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon CloudWatch
Netdata
Netdata

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.

Netdata collects metrics per second & presents them in low-latency dashboards. It's designed to run on all of your physical & virtual servers, cloud deployments, Kubernetes clusters & edge/IoT devices, to monitor systems, containers & apps

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.;Elastic Load Balancers: thirteen pre-selected metrics at one-minute frequency, free of charge.;Amazon RDS DB instances: thirteen pre-selected metrics at one-minute frequency, free of charge.;Amazon SQS queues: eight pre-selected metrics at five-minute frequency, free of charge.;Amazon SNS topics: four pre-selected metrics at five-minute frequency, free of charge.;Amazon ElastiCache nodes: twenty-nine pre-selected metrics at one-minute frequency, free of charge.;Amazon DynamoDB tables: seven pre-selected metrics at five-minute frequency, free of charge.;AWS Storage Gateways: eleven pre-selected gateway metrics and five pre-selected storage volume metrics at five-minute frequency, free of charge.;Amazon Elastic MapReduce job flows: twenty-three pre-selected metrics at five-minute frequency, free of charge.;Auto Scaling groups: seven pre-selected metrics at one-minute frequency, optional and charged at standard pricing.;Estimated charges on your AWS bill: you can also choose to enable metrics to monitor your AWS charges. The number of metrics depends on the AWS products and services that you use, and these metrics are free of charge. Learn more about this option.
Free, open-source; Easy installation and configuration; Access to monitoring unlimited metrics; Prebuilt dashboards and alarms; alerts on any metric, for a single host, an entire cluster, or your entire infrastructure; Tools for team collaboration; 800+ integrations
Statistics
Stacks
12.0K
Stacks
226
Followers
8.2K
Followers
392
Votes
214
Votes
82
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 76
    Monitor aws resources
  • 46
    Zero setup
  • 30
    Detailed Monitoring
  • 23
    Backed by Amazon
  • 19
    Auto Scaling groups
Cons
  • 2
    Poor Search Capabilities
Pros
  • 17
    Free
  • 14
    Easy setup
  • 12
    Graphs are interactive
  • 9
    Well maintained on github
  • 9
    Montiors datasbases
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Puppet Labs
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CouchDB
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ActiveMQ
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Logstash
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Fail2ban
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TimescaleDB
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Windows
Grafana
Grafana
MongoDB
MongoDB
RabbitMQ
RabbitMQ

What are some alternatives to Amazon CloudWatch, Netdata?

Grafana

Grafana

Grafana is a general purpose dashboard and graph composer. It's focused on providing rich ways to visualize time series metrics, mainly though graphs but supports other ways to visualize data through a pluggable panel architecture. It currently has rich support for for Graphite, InfluxDB and OpenTSDB. But supports other data sources via plugins.

Kibana

Kibana

Kibana is an open source (Apache Licensed), browser based analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch. Kibana is a snap to setup and start using. Kibana strives to be easy to get started with, while also being flexible and powerful, just like Elasticsearch.

Prometheus

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.

Nagios

Nagios

Nagios is a host/service/network monitoring program written in C and released under the GNU General Public License.

Stackdriver

Stackdriver

Google Stackdriver provides powerful monitoring, logging, and diagnostics. It equips you with insight into the health, performance, and availability of cloud-powered applications, enabling you to find and fix issues faster.

Zabbix

Zabbix

Zabbix is a mature and effortless enterprise-class open source monitoring solution for network monitoring and application monitoring of millions of metrics.

Sensu

Sensu

Sensu is the future-proof solution for multi-cloud monitoring at scale. The Sensu monitoring event pipeline empowers businesses to automate their monitoring workflows and gain deep visibility into their multi-cloud environments.

Graphite

Graphite

Graphite does two things: 1) Store numeric time-series data and 2) Render graphs of this data on demand

Lumigo

Lumigo

Lumigo is an observability platform built for developers, unifying distributed tracing with payload data, log management, and real-time metrics to help you deeply understand and troubleshoot your systems.

StatsD

StatsD

It is a network daemon that runs on the Node.js platform and listens for statistics, like counters and timers, sent over UDP or TCP and sends aggregates to one or more pluggable backend services (e.g., Graphite).

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