Amazon CloudWatch Valuable Features

SB
Head of Data Architect at LendingTree

It is valuable that CloudWatch collects all the metrics. I primarily like the RUM. There is an instantaneous response when monitoring logs and KPIs. CloudWatch immediately hooks up and connects to the KPIs and all the metrics. 

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Karthick Selvam - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at Saama

Amazon CloudWatch is a tool that already provides my company with external features. I will have to check all the features provided by Amazon CloudWatch. Monitoring is one of the best features of Amazon CloudWatch. Amazon CloudWatch can be considered as a tunnel where you can collect logs.

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RomilShah - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

What I found most valuable in Amazon CloudWatch is that it gives you detailed information, which I found helpful because it can even provide you with data for the past one minute, which is quite granular. That was what helped me most in terms of finding the root causes.

Task automation is another valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch.

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Amazon CloudWatch
April 2024
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Saurav P - PeerSpot reviewer
Big Data Engineer at Cognizant

The most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is collecting the logs from Lambda.

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NathanNV - PeerSpot reviewer
Elite Global CISO at Scybers

Amazon CloudWatch's best feature stems from its ability to monitor app performance. People also use Amazon CloudWatch for integration with AWS services.

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Rasanpreet Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

We have been highly satisfied with its event scheduler feature. Enabling this feature has proven to be quite beneficial as it allows for the seamless automation of various tasks. It offers direct integrations with various storage providers, making it convenient to push logs from CloudWatch to these external platforms. For instance, if I need to transfer my logs from CloudWatch to a third-party storage solution, it provides a robust integration mechanism for such use cases.

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Alex Kabugo - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at Wipro Limited

Scheduling is a valuable feature.

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JR
Director at Fidelity Investments

I'm a technical manager and they use CloudWatch to forward all the requests to Datadog. I don't know the specific features inside the CloudWatch that they found useful.

Our team finds it overall quite useful.

Everything is based off of CloudWatch. Logs stream through CloudWatch and then everything is piggybacked, the telemetry and everything is coming out of that. 

It's pretty simple to set up.

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Prasanth MG - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at Readyly

It maintains all the streams and all the logs in an orderly manner, and it maintains it indefinitely unless otherwise configured with a retention period. CloudWatch Alarms is another useful service. It will send us a notification if our usage exceeds the limit we've set. Also, we have to use CloudWatch Alarms to comply with some security standards. Watching the logs and troubleshooting Lambda is the main use of Amazon CloudWatch for us. The tool's UI is good. One can scroll through the logs very easily.

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Vinod Siwach - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer at plutos ONE

The monitoring features are valuable. The product pushes notifications with the help of SNS. We can increase or decrease our instances horizontally or vertically. We are collecting CloudWatch logs in Grafana too. We have also configured it with Kibana.

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RANJAN KUMAR - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer at ZoomOps Technology

The most valuable features of Amazon CloudWatch are metrics, dashboards, alarms, logs, events, logs insight, and application insights.

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Kapil Natu - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Performance Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

It is a robust analytical tool and it goes beyond mere functionality and extends into the realm of providing comprehensive insights. It empowers me with analytical skills and capabilities, offering a detailed snapshot of the entire process of requests within an application. Its strength lies in its ability to paint a vivid picture of the application's performance by breaking down the journey of each request, revealing which components are causing delays, and identifying specific pain points.

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Adalberto Barbosa Da Costa Lobato - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Solutions Architect at gwcloud.company

The most valuable feature is monitoring. 

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Pradeep Murugesh - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Product Architect at Majorel

The most valuable feature is the insights are good.

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ChanchalSingh - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Engineering - Data and Machine Learning at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

The most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is its ease of use and logs. You do not have to go to each separate system to see the logs, such as Syslog and they are located in one dashboard GUI.

If someone changes some configurations in other tools, such as Grafana, someone has to deep dive to see what has happened. These issues do not happen in Amazon CloudWatch because it is easy to use. It is managed by Amazon AWS.

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Santosh Devara - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Architect at Mercedes-Benz

In Amazon CloudWatch, I found their data analytics services most valuable. They are what we are looking for. We are utilizing Kinesis Data Firehose, Logstash Elastic, and CloudWatch Logs. There are many services that we are using, and in our case, we are using three.

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AtemnkengNkeze - PeerSpot reviewer
AWS Cloud Engineer/Cloud Architect at Landmark Technologies

The detection is the most valuable feature.

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Shubham Chakraworty - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The product can be integrated with AWS very easily. Most of the services are in-built. We just need to have the configurations. We can easily get the logs we need from those services. It gives us the logs of CPU utilization and memory utilization of the applications.

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KK
Lead Technical Product Owner - AI & ML at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

It's a very simple logging system. It's a very simple monitoring system, however, you have other advanced services as well if you choose to go more advanced. This is a simpler product that we can use right away.

The implementation process is very simple.

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Prathap G - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at ValueMomentum

What my company likes best about Amazon CloudWatch is that it's on AWS. My team also likes it for its log feature. As the solution is on AWS, it also has good pricing and resource availability, plus it's what clients choose. My company also chose AWS for Forge ECS, and at the time, there was a need for the log features provided by Amazon CloudWatch, so it's the solution my team went with.

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Selva Thurai - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps-TechSpecialist at Brillio

The most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is the monitoring and UI.

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SA
Cloud Engineer/Cloud Architect at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

We can create events and alerts. We use the information to dive down into the infrastructure performance.

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it_user842139 - PeerSpot reviewer
Acquisitions Leader at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

The solution works well as part of an overall Amazon ecosystem.

The solution is easy to set up.

The solution gives us very good real-time data.

Ability to aggregate performance metrics.

Getting  real time alerts on AWS environment.

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LO
Cloud architect at Freebyte
Leonard Onojedje - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer at Oxdit Technologies

The alarms are one thing I love about AWS CloudWatch. It has alerts that notify us when resource use is approaching the limit. 

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VK
Principal Cloud Security Consultant at Pegasystems

We can set CPU thresholds using the solution.

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MM
Senior Performance Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is reliability.

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Shaamil Ashraff - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect - Database Administration at Mitra Innovation

It's simple to use. It's not complex. The simplicity of the configuration is great. The product is also easy to set up.

It's stable.

The scalability is good.

We have found the pricing to be reasonable.

The technical support is good. 

The dashboards and monitoring have been great. It's user-friendly. 

It offers good security in general. 

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Sourabh Pardhi - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Information Security Analyst at Everbridge

The monitoring feature is valuable. AWS provides a detailed document of how CloudWatch works and how we can integrate and utilize it. We get a summary of all the logs explained in the documentation.

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PM
Senior Technical project lead at a tech consulting company with 10,001+ employees

The solution effectively monitors golden signals like CPU, page requests, and queues. 

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Emi Laetitia TAKOUDJOU FOKOU - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at Scasicomp

The most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is intrusion prevention.

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UM
DevOps Engineer at Talabat

CloudWatch is good to use for infrastructure monitoring and workload monitoring on AWS. It is good for monitoring AWS infrastructure and services.

You can enable alarms and metrics, and it has robust integration with AWS services. You can also trigger events. For example, if the CPU utilization is above 80%, it can launch a new instance for you.

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Olhbe456 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure/Systems Admin at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

The product helps us collect and store various metrics to set test alarms. The metrics allow us to apply the configuration changes in our environment.

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Surya GP - PeerSpot reviewer
Trainee cloud at INFRABEAT TECHNOLOGIES PVT LTD

Monitoring time and ensuring ease in it is the most valuable feature. It offers three distinct signing metrics that allow for effective oversight.

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NR
Vice President at American Technology Consulting

The ability to analyze is probably the most valuable feature. We also have system-wide visibility. And you have a unified operational health watch, I think those are pretty key. 

I think the biggest is with CloudWatch. It's part of the AWS interface, so again, it's all baked in. You don't have to have a third party tool, because it's a part of the platform, and having one platform, as opposed to having to use a lot of different platforms makes a huge difference. Or having to go to another third party platform.

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OH
Head of Information Technologies at Daily Food

The permanent marking is something we really appreciate in the solution.

The solution offers very detailed metrics for their services.

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RB
Engineer at a renewables & environment company with 501-1,000 employees

We use Amazon CloudWatch for logging.

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KA
Compliance Ofcr at Hotel Trader

Amazon CloudWatch is a cheap and easy-to-use solution. We can run custom queries on the logs with the solution. Since our whole system is in AWS, we can easily push to Amazon CloudWatch.

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Sofiane  Mekhaba - PeerSpot reviewer
Scrum Master / Team Leader at Algeofleet

I have found the memory metrics and the CPU metrics valuable.

Amazon CloudWatch has a user-friendly interface.

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FC
Tech Lead & Solutions Architect at DXC

The portability that we have in Amazon is great. It's very different than the other solutions on offer.

The solution is easy to use. I find it quite enjoyable.

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Buyer's Guide
Amazon CloudWatch
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about Amazon CloudWatch. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
768,740 professionals have used our research since 2012.