On-premises, we have used other solutions like Sumo Logic, Azure Logic Apps and others. Not everyone uses AWS so we have a lot of tools we use.

Previously we used some main external app logic but it didn't work well with AWS tools. I would have to figure it out and configure Aurora to do something or find a way to do S3 buckets. Those solutions worked well for on-premises, but not with AWS and clouds.

We didn't use a different solution before using Amazon CloudWatch.

In the past, we relied on on-premises services for logging and other tasks, so we often had to manage a lot of data transfer between different systems, which could be quite cumbersome. Since we've transitioned to AWS for hosting our resources and solutions, we've found that it's much more efficient to use cloud-native services like CloudWatch. When your infrastructure and solutions are already on AWS, it's a logical choice to leverage the cloud's services rather than dealing with the complexities of integrating with external services.

We also use Datadog.

People find the dashboarding of Datadog to be very comfortable and very elegant. That's one of the main things that come out. They take the data from the CloudWatch and they tally with the costing aspect as well, however, mainly, people find it useful on the dashboard. They like the alerts et cetera. The usability and search are great.

Right now, for monitoring, what we do is, we have a login into an SQL server.

I have used Datadog. If we want to do any basic infrastructure monitoring, such as CPU. If our customers want to do automation, Kubernetes, and application monitoring, we use Datadog because Amazon CloudWatch does not have these features.

We didn't previously use a different solution. We've only ever used Amazon.

We were previously using the AppDynamics machine agent and it saved money by using Amazon CloudWatch.

We have worked with Datadog and New Relic. New Relic is pretty good in application performance. It gives you a lot of insights. Two of our customers use it.

Before using this solution, we had our own on-premises access.

I also have experience with Datalog. I find there a lot more positive aspects of that over this solution.