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About Amazon CloudWatch
Observability of your AWS resources and applications on AWS and on-premises
It's very scalable and monitoring EC2, services is an easy and quick job with Cloudwatch. Intuitive UI and highly integrable with all the AWS resources which facilate automated monitoring.
This can be a limitation if you have a hybrid infrastructure or use third-party services.
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Powerful Monitoring Tool
Comments: My overall experience with Amazon CloudWatch has been positive, especially in terms of monitoring AWS resources and applications in real time. It provides detailed metrics, logs, and alarms, making it a valuable tool for maintaining system health and performance.
Pros:
It provides real-time monitoring of AWS resources and applications, with detailed logs and customizable metrics.
Cons:
Storing and analyzing large volumes of logs can get expensive, especially without proper retention policies.

Monitoring Vms
Comments: Overall the product is absolutely helpful to understand and see the metrices of data in a collaborative dashboard of all the Regions. Creating tags , alarms are really helpful to avoid spikes and any issues.
Pros:
1. Easy integrable with other Amazon services. 2. Processing of logs , notifications and doing real-time monitoring on critical machines is ease with CloudWatch. 3. It is a global service , so no hassle of changing regions, sites for the view.
Cons:
1. Analysis of monitors in starting is difficult. 2. Managing services cost is such a tricky process with the usage.

Essential for AWS Monitoring and Management
Comments: Amazon CloudWatch is an essential tool for monitoring cloud infrastructure, and it integrates seamlessly with AWS services. While it requires some learning upfront, its robust features make it worth the effort.
Pros:
Amazon CloudWatch provides comprehensive monitoring and logging for AWS services, making it easy to track system performance and resolve issues quickly. The dashboards are customizable, and the alerting system is very reliable.
Cons:
The pricing can be high for larger-scale applications, and the interface might feel complex for new users. Additionally, the learning curve can be steep if you’re unfamiliar with AWS services.
Monitoring of instances
Comments: Absolutely wonderful product for monitoring of all the AWS resources together and checkout any gaps and issues effectively. We can create realtime metrics and charts of the EC2 resources.
Pros:
1. It's very scalable and monitoring EC2, services is an easy and quick job with Cloudwatch. 2. Intuitive UI and highly integrable with all the AWS resources which facilate automated monitoring. 3. Customize dashboard according to queries and quick report availability.
Cons:
1. Analysis of logs is somehow a tough job. 2. Complex implementation and filter addition. 3. Cost are based on the monitoring of resource.
Amazon CloudWatch
Comments: Amazon CloudWatch provides reliable monitoring and logging
Pros:
To monitor our resources in the AWS account
Cons:
its cost, which can quickly escalate with large-scale monitoring and logging, especially without optimized configuration
My Experience of Amazon CloudWatch
Comments:
Overall Experience is positive with these things.
1. CloudWatch Excels at offering detailed insights into aws resources.
2. Customize dashboard as per need
it is a versatile solution for monitoring for simplify observation and insights of operations.
Pros:
CloudWatch Alarms are highly configurable. When Any thresholds are breached sends Notifications that enable quick response to an issue. Seamless integration with Aws services
Cons:
CloudWatch Pricing structure can become confusing and expensive especially when dealing with high metrics, logs and alarms. Dashboard are customizable but built-in visualization are so basic.
Comprehensive tool for monitoring our AWS resources
Comments: Overall, my experience with Amazon CloudWatch has been very good. It is a powerful tool for monitoring and troubleshooting AWS resources and has helped us get some valuable insights.
Pros:
The thing I like the most about Amazon CloudWatch is the ability to create custom dashboards. These dashboards help me visualize data and give valuable insights to my company.
Cons:
It can get really expensive really quick if you are monitoring a lot of resources, and we ended up overspending on something we were just testing out.
Good tool to monitor AWS resources
Comments: Here’s a more relaxed version: Overall, I think CloudWatch is pretty solid. It’s good for keeping track of things and works well with other AWS stuff. The learning curve and pricing can be a bit annoying sometimes, but it gets the job done and helps me stay on top of things.
Pros:
A centralised Dashboard to view and monitor all of my resources from one place. It is easy to set up Cloud Watch with multiple AWS resources, such as EC2 instances, ECS instances, and RDS database instances.
Cons:
Some of the advanced features, like custom metrics, took a little while to figure out.
Good Product
Comments: Overall I really liked it I found it very reliable
Pros:
I liked how reliable and organized the software is
Cons:
I wish they were a little more direct on finding what you need
Amy's review
Comments: It was very beneficial! I learn something new everyday. I would love to learn new things on here.
Pros:
Amazon CloudWatch is great and very useful! It provides great resources and essential learning skills.
Cons:
Nothing. It is great to use. I don't have any complaints.
Managing instance Alarms
Comments: CloudWatch is the best resource for managing logs and monitoring real-time data in instances. It helps to prevent any critical situation and finding out the correct RCA for the activities going on.
Pros:
1. Setting up alarms based on critical scenarios is easy with Amazon CloudWatch. 2. We can do real-time monitoring of instances easily. 3. Hassle-free integration with all the other AWS services.
Cons:
1. Product cost value and setting up time is more. 2. It helps to show current data to a maximum of 3 months old data. No previous data is stored. 3. There is no customization available in the setting and working of alarms.
Great monitoring service
Pros:
I was able to capture metrics of my EC2 instances every minute and take action quickly if necessary.
Cons:
It is imperative to install the CloudWatch agent on instances using my custom AMI.
Overall it is Okay
Comments: We have been using Cloudwatch for quite some time to monitor our AWS Infra which includes ECS, Opensearch, Redis, EC2 InstancesIt performs well in terms of logs and metric queryingAlerts set up performs well
Pros:
We can view logs and metrics in real-time and even those in the pastMore or less easy to configure and useNotification is available based on alertsOptimized for AWS Services
Cons:
It quite costlyThe interface could have been easier to use

Cloudwatch is great for Application Logs!
Comments: Our experience has been good and has helped us catch issues and solve them before anyone notices!
Pros:
It is easy to go into Amazon Cloudwatch and see if we are having any issues with our websites or APIs.
Cons:
So far we have had no issues with Amazon Cloudwatch.
Monitor Your AWS Applications The Performance , Metrics And Logging
Comments: Cloudwatch gives you the logging data to solve your problems and bugs with alerting functionality. Easily get the information to troubleshoot. The alerting is a little complex to setup.
Pros:
- easy to use - builtin with AWS - long data retention period - collect and track your metrics
Cons:
- it's only basic monitoring - the alerting could be better - it has a limitation for event fields
Nice cloudwatch
Comments:
1.Ease of Monitoring
2.Proactive Management
3.Integration
4.Customization
5.Scalability
Pros:
1.Comprehensive Monitoring 2.Real-Time Alerts 3.Custom Dashboards 4.Integration with AWS Services 5.Automated Actions
Cons:
1.Complex Pricing 2.Steep Learning Curve 3.Limited Customization 4.Log Management Costs 5.Alert Fatigue
Good especially for large teams
Pros:
Easy to integrate with AWS which is extremely useful in managing those deployments (my main use case). The real time monitoring features are also extremely useful.
Cons:
I would be weary if working independently and using AWS services as a whole. I have had personal experiences with over charging for resources that I hadn’t used.

Great for log metrics
Pros:
Great for logging app metrics, cloud watch alarms and visualization
Cons:
Nothing so far but yes need to aee integration with third party
CloudWatch, watch out Apple!
Pros:
Excellent service and product to save info!
Cons:
Nothing at all! Everything works well with this software.
Amazing monitoring tool
Pros:
Our team is using cloud watch to monitor log files, monitor issues and changes of the AWS resources in the real time. As a company we get lots of benefits since we can identify the issues before impact those to our project.
Cons:
This is expensive product and some of the companies cannot afford it.
CloudWatch is a reliable and powerful tool for monitoring and managing AWS resources and application
Comments: Amazon CloudWatch is a reliable and powerful tool for monitoring and managing AWS resources and applications. The service offers a comprehensive set of monitoring capabilities, including custom metrics, logs, alarms, and dashboards, and integrates seamlessly with other AWS services.
Pros:
Amazon CloudWatch provides a comprehensive set of monitoring capabilities, including custom metrics, logs, alarms, and dashboards. This allows you to gain deep visibility into the performance and behavior of your applications and infrastructure.
Cons:
While Amazon CloudWatch provides excellent monitoring and management capabilities for AWS resources, it has limited support for monitoring resources outside of AWS. This can be a limitation if you have a hybrid infrastructure or use third-party services.
CloudWatch - Monitor applications both in on-premsis and AWS cloud.
Comments: Go to service to observe AWS service operations.
Pros:
The cloud watch service from AWS helps to integrate the other services and helps to monitor its daily services. The logs and statistics are stored here for us to debug and go analytics on top of it .
Cons:
The cloud watch UI could have been improved to give modern look as sometimes its difficult to debug longer logs generated by any application. The highlighting of error in the log will help the developers a lot.
CloudWatch brings visibility to your AWS stack
Comments:
You don't have to use AWS for very long to have this happen: you've got instances and tasks and containers and all kinds of "machines", whether physical or virtual, running all over the place, and you want to figure out how to see what's going on internally with one of them. Maybe you just want a quick look at the Apache logs. In the "good old days" you'd just SSH into the instance. But with Docker and virtualization and everything, that's not so easily said and done anymore. Enter CloudWatch.
Think of it as a centralized logging store. When you start up containers and instances and tasks and such, you can ask AWS to automatically have whatever you are spinning up log its internals to CloudWatch. You can then jump into CW anytime you need to take a look at what's happening inside that box. Need Apache logs? They're right there. Even better, they are searchable using a good (but not great) interface. Also, CW will bring together the logs from separate ECS tasks into one log group, if you want. So if you have a handful of tasks running, you can search across all of them in one go and find the misbehaving one much more easily than SSH'ing into 6 instances trying to locate the culprit.
Extra bonus: with just a teeny bit of coding on your end you can actually have your application log items to CW directly. Use Lambda to monitor it, and push that to Slack, and you've got custom monitoring, built into your AWS stacks. CW is critical to doing AWS right.
Pros:
* One-stop shopping for visibility on all your instances (and tasks and sub-instances and whatever else that AWS makes it so easy to spin up but then so hard to keep track of later) * Easy to hook into Lambda (which can then call to Slack or some other service) so that you can get push notifications about whatever's happening
Cons:
* The search facility is not as good as it probably could be. If you have a line of output from a log, for instance, and you want to see where that line of output came from, and you do not know which log group it's from, you are out of luck. You can only search inside a log or log group, which means you have to know where the output came from to start with, but that might be exactly the issue you're trying to figure out in the first place: where is this output coming from. * AWS instances and tasks automatically start up with CW integration but that can quickly result in loads of orphaned CW log groups and such if you then do away with the instances but don't remember to go into CW and kill those as well.

Review of Amazon Cloudwatch
Comments: Cloudwatch is used best when it is used with all the other AWS services. I wouldn't really say you use Cloudwatch by itself, it's always to check or report on another service. With that said, Cloudwatch really excels at monitoring once you put in the time to setup metrics. Otherwise, you sit on a wealth of potential data that ends up not being used.
Pros:
Cloudwatch is best used when we try to identify/debug our code. We check logs for our cloud functions through cloudwatch and due to it being realtime it allows us to quickly diagnose any issues. By making our functions verbose, our logs become clear to sort through as well. Cloudwatch also allows us to monitor our servers load. We have some automations to post on our channels when certain servers have too much load, low memory, or when too many error events have occurred in a short period. This has allowed us to resolve issues as fast as possible.
Cons:
I think the slowness can sometimes be a limiting factor. Opening several pages of logs at the same time will slow down the system. This happens to me because I usually am trying to find specific text that was output, but there is no search for data within the log files, just for the filenames of the log files (which in my case is not helpful).
Keep an Eye on Everything
Comments: my overall experience is very good with AmazonCloudwatch i will recommend everyone to use it and once we use it we cant stop using it because of its rich set of features.
Pros:
Realtime monitoring the infrastructure using various metrics help to analyse the situationn its best thing i liked.
Cons:
there is no such thing which i did not like in this product.