Amazon CloudWatch Reviews

We are kind of consultants. We maintain our customers' environment on AWS. 

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.

For monitoring applications or for APM, CloudWatch has some limitations. You cannot monitor application performance from CloudWatch, and you have to go for a third-party tool.

A major drawback of CloudWatch is that you cannot create reports. They should add the functionality for creating some reports so that the users can download those reports. Currently, you can see the old data, but you cannot generate reports. So, if some of our customers ask us for monthly or weekly reports, there is a limitation, and we have to go for a third-party tool to generate reports.

I have been working with Amazon CloudWatch for two years. 

It is stable.

It is scalable. You can do alarms, and you can send logs. 

We have many customers. We have enterprise customers, and we also have medium-sized customers.

Their technical support is good. If you have AWS business support, AWS technical guys can support you a lot.

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.

Its setup is easy. AWS documentation is there, and you can find a lot of guidance on it. You can configure it easily.

Its pricing is reasonable. It is sometimes tricky, but it is reasonable as compared to others.

I would recommend it depending on what a customer wants to achieve or what is the requirement for monitoring. 

I would rate Amazon CloudWatch a six out of 10.

We use the product to monitor resources for reporting purposes. It alerts us when we are required to scale up resources.

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.

Amazon CloudWatch's pricing needs improvement.

We have been using Amazon CloudWatch for three years.

The product is very stable.

The initial setup process is easy.

The product generates a return on investment.

The product's cost is relatively inexpensive.

I rate Amazon CloudWatch an eight out of ten. I recommend the product if you want a system to monitor the resources. It provides proper metrics and manages workload efficiently. It offers features for real-time cloud monitoring. You can view the activities on the network set for a specific timeline.

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.

There's a learning curve with Amazon CloudWatch since we have to learn to write the queries to extract the keys and logs.

We have been using Amazon CloudWatch for five years.

Amazon CloudWatch is a stable solution. I rate Amazon CloudWatch a nine out of ten for stability.

Amazon CloudWatch is a scalable solution. I rate Amazon CloudWatch a nine out of ten for scalability.

Amazon CloudWatch's initial setup is easy.

I have not used the solution extensively, but it's not user-friendly, and we have to learn the queries and then type.

If you can write custom queries or learn to write them, you can do many things with Amazon CloudWatch.

Rapid7 is cheap and more user-friendly as compared to Amazon CloudWatch. However, Amazon CloudWatch is more stable as compared to Rapid7.

Overall, I rate Amazon CloudWatch a nine out of ten.

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.

The portability of the Datadog is much more flexible for us. The client does not need to have Amazon services for the entire life of the project, unfortunately. They can change. But for Amazon to move over to Google Cloud, for example, that it's very important for the client. They are not investing in a particular single cloud service.

The panel should be better. Datalog's is much more visual.

The configuration capabilities could be better. We've found it to be quite good on Datalog, for example. They should emulate that.

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

As an implementor, I can implement the solution for our clients.

I'm an implementor, not a user. We are not a partner.

I'm not sure which version of the solution is currently used, as it depends on the client's environment.

I'd rate the solution at a seven out of ten. I personally have a lot of EC2 stations on Amazon and I have a lot of computing credits on Amazon. I really enjoy using Amazon.