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Amazon CloudWatch vs StatusGator: What are the differences?

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; StatusGator: Instant status overview of all the services you depend on including Heroku, Slack, Stripe, New Relic and 50 others. StatusGator monitors the published service status of more than 100 cloud services.

Amazon CloudWatch and StatusGator can be primarily classified as "Cloud Monitoring" tools.

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, StatusGator provides the following key features:

Consult your dashboard before spending hours debugging problems
Enable notifications and be alerted when services report issues
Simple, 3 minute setup. Just choose the services you use. That's it

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What is Amazon CloudWatch?

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 StatusGator?

StatusGator monitors the published service status of more than 100 cloud services.

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Why do developers choose Amazon CloudWatch?

Why do developers choose StatusGator?

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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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What companies use Amazon CloudWatch?

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What are some alternatives to Amazon CloudWatch and StatusGator?

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

Splunk Inc. provides the leading platform for Operational Intelligence. Customers use Splunk to search, monitor, analyze and visualize machine data.

New Relic

New Relic is the all-in-one web application performance tool that lets you see performance from the end user experience, through servers, and down to the line of application code.

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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Amazon CloudWatch

If you have a single server, checking log files is as easy as SSHing to it and viewing logs. When you move to the container world, with many servers, you need a place to aggregate and search through all of your logs. CloudWatch provides us with this and it was trivial to setup.