Amazon CloudWatch
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Amazon CloudWatch
MonitoringWhat 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.
Amazon CloudWatch is a tool in the Monitoring category of a tech stack.
Key Features
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.
Amazon CloudWatch Pros & Cons
Pros of Amazon CloudWatch
- ✓Monitor aws resources
- ✓Zero setup
- ✓Detailed Monitoring
- ✓Backed by Amazon
- ✓Auto Scaling groups
- ✓SNS and autoscaling integrations
- ✓Burstable instances metrics (t2 cpu credit balance)
- ✓HIPAA/PCI/SOC Compliance-friendly
- ✓Native tool for AWS so understand AWS out of the box
Cons of Amazon CloudWatch
- ✗Poor Search Capabilities
Amazon CloudWatch Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Amazon CloudWatch?
Kibana
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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.
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.
