AWS Config vs StatusGator

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AWS Config vs StatusGator: What are the differences?

Developers describe AWS Config as "Config gives you a detailed inventory of your AWS resources and their current configuration, and continuously records configuration changes". AWS Config is a fully managed service that provides you with an AWS resource inventory, configuration history, and configuration change notifications to enable security and governance. With AWS Config you can discover existing AWS resources, export a complete inventory of your AWS resources with all configuration details, and determine how a resource was configured at any point in time. These capabilities enable compliance auditing, security analysis, resource change tracking, and troubleshooting. On the other hand, StatusGator is detailed as "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.

AWS Config and StatusGator belong to "Cloud Monitoring" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by AWS Config are:

  • Configuration Visibility
  • Fully Managed
  • Easy to get started

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 AWS Config?

      AWS Config is a fully managed service that provides you with an AWS resource inventory, configuration history, and configuration change notifications to enable security and governance. With AWS Config you can discover existing AWS resources, export a complete inventory of your AWS resources with all configuration details, and determine how a resource was configured at any point in time. These capabilities enable compliance auditing, security analysis, resource change tracking, and troubleshooting.

      What is StatusGator?

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

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        What tools integrate with AWS Config?
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        What are some alternatives to AWS Config and StatusGator?
        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.
        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.
        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.
        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.
        Sentry
        Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health.
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