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“CloudWatch Alarms and Logs Insights Simplify Service Monitoring and Issue Detection”
“Cloudwatch Features Praised But Users Seek Better Metrics And Alarms Integration”
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Amazon Web Services (AWS), established in 2006, is focused on providing essential infrastructure services to businesses globally in the form of cloud computing. The key advantage offered through cloud computing, particularly via AWS, is its capacity to shift fixed infrastructure expenses into flexible costs. Businesses have been able to forgo extensive planning and procurement of servers and other Information Technology (IT) resources, owing to AWS. AWS seeks to provide businesses with prompt and cost-effective access to resources using Amazon's expertise and economies of scale, as and when their business requires. Currently, AWS offers a robust, scalable, economic infrastructure platform on the cloud powering an extensive array of businesses worldwide. It operates across numerous industries with data center locations in various parts of the globe including U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Japan.
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In our experience, the best thing about CloudWatch is connectivity with their own services. For example, if I need logs for the Lambda, I don't need to attach the event to the service; it comes by default with CloudWatch logs. Then we have the CloudWatch Logs Insights service, which is basically a query for the CloudWatch data. For example, sometimes we have millions of data in our backend server or UI server, so if we need to find the specific logs, then it is very hard to go through all the log groups and all. At the time we used these log insights; it helped us a lot to find it. Another thing is alarms are basically used to give you an alert when your point is hit. This helps us to continue monitoring the performance of our services, and there are many different services as well.
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Ease of integration with AWS ecosystem services like ec2, RDS, etc. which helps with setting alarms with critical metrics. Integration with third party tools like grafana , greylog helps you extend the observability of user resources. Scalability is something that goes hand in hand in this no matter the size of the logs
While excellent for starting up, CloudWatch can become expensive when we start adding in the logs, and logs grow, store the logs for long periods of time, and use custom metrics, which can increase our monthly bill. And sometimes the UI for the console can feel very cluttered. It takes time for the new team members to get used to it, and using logs insights also takes time when you are new because of the query syntax. It is not same like simple sql it is hard in the beginning. When you start working continuously you feel more familiar with it
Their integration with logs metrics and alarms. if we could have one page to see all of that would be great
Pricing is something that is very confusing, log ingestion and storing both have different costs which can be difficult for beginners to understand Cross account setup is not easy in case a user requires centralized visibility. It mainly focuses on infra level alerting, so for application level alerts users have to opt for other products.
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- Web Developer And Data Analytics<50M USDIT ServicesReview Source
CloudWatch Alarms and Logs Insights Simplify Service Monitoring and Issue Detection
I think Amazon CloudWatch is one of the best services provided by AWS because it is used to log our services data from AWS. We have a long experience with CloudWatch logs, and that is amazing because of the connection with all their own services, so it helps us so much to debug the issues as well - CLOUD ENGINEER / CLOUD SPECIALIST50M-1B USDBankingReview Source
AWS Cloudwatch : The backbone of AWS infra monitoring
Very useful service for cloud monitoring and observability,, the alarm and notification with integration of sns and ses is very helpful for prompt action along with the log storing and creation is something that benefited the user , extremely helpful when used under aws ecosystem - SENIOR SYSTEMS ENGINEER50M-1B USDBankingReview Source
Efficient AWS Log Monitoring With Cloudwatch, Though Dashboard Features Are Limited
We needed to have a monitoring solution for our AWS deployed services and decided to use Cloudwatch as part of the monitoring stack. - MANAGERGov't/PS/EdEducationReview Source
AWS Cloud Watch Enables Real-Time Monitoring and Dynamic Resource Management
AWS as a platform is great for the richness in tooling and capabilities it offers. AWS Cloud Watch has been instrumental in us being able to use it to monitor our resources and the applications we run within our footprint in realtime, thus providing system-wide observability which is very much needed. Thus we've been able to continue better manage what is left running vs what is shutdown. - CLOUD & INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER<50M USDTelecommunicationReview Source
Powerful observability tool but watch your costs
My experience has been largely positive. The very deep integration with all other AWS services is very neat. You can find everything in here: metrics, logs, alarms, traces, you name it. Finding your way through the service might have a steep learning curve but that is totally worth it in the end.