Amazon CloudWatch Valuable Features
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Samba-Bulusu
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.
View full review »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.
View full review »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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The most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is collecting the logs from Lambda.
View full review »Amazon CloudWatch's best feature stems from its ability to monitor app performance. People also use Amazon CloudWatch for integration with AWS services.
View full review »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.
Scheduling is a valuable feature.
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JayR
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.
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.
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.
View full review »The most valuable features of Amazon CloudWatch are metrics, dashboards, alarms, logs, events, logs insight, and application insights.
View full review »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.
View full review »The most valuable feature is monitoring.
View full review »The most valuable feature is the insights are good.
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.
View full review »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.
View full review »The detection is the most valuable feature.
View full review »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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KusumaK
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.
View full review »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.
View full review »The most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is the monitoring and UI.
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reviewer2225706
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.
View full review »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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Lorenzo Ortega
Cloud architect at Freebyte
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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Vijay Kumar Avula
Principal Cloud Security Consultant at Pegasystems
We can set CPU thresholds using the solution.
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reviewer1829205
Senior Performance Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is reliability.
View full review »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.
View full review »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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reviewer1973016
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.
View full review »The most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is intrusion prevention.
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Ummekulsum Musekhan
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.
View full review »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.
View full review »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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Nick Reddin
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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Omar Homsi
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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reviewer1530864
Engineer at a renewables & environment company with 501-1,000 employees
We use Amazon CloudWatch for logging.
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Kaushal Agrawal
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.
View full review »I have found the memory metrics and the CPU metrics valuable.
Amazon CloudWatch has a user-friendly interface.
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Fernando Cunha JR
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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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.
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