Great in-depth metrics and numerical graphs of loads and systems in the production, these values help us to optimize read and write operations within the limit of the EC2 servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Graphs can be more optimized, moreover, widgets & UI can be improved more on the mobile-based application which can be hard to navigate through. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Things that I love about the Amazon CloudWatch are :

1. We use it for Real Time monitoring of our AWS deployed applications. We utilize its built in standard reports for application monitoring. These reports give a brief of the system performance and over all health of it.

2. It allows us to setup high resolution alarms and send notifications if needed. It supports automation based on predefined thresholds. During lower CPU usage, we scale down or stop an instance, which helps in reducing waste, and thus resulting in cost saving. This helps in our resource optimization startegy.

3. It provides many key metrics such as - Disk read/write, CPU usage, and Network in/out etc. Unique feature of Amazon CloudWatch is that it allows you to assign upto ten dimensions to a metric. These metrics are the pulse of our cloud deployments. This aligns us to our health monitoring services.

4. It has enhanced our observability. We are able to corelate the key metrics, events and system logs data, and derive a optimum operating point by using historical data as refernce. All these metrics at one place has made this data corelation very easy. This has enhanced our system wide visibility. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are no dislikeable features of Amazon CloudWatch as such, but the service charges is comparatively on the higher side. Because there are other third party monitoring and log exporting tools available in the market at a cheaper cost. Since, it helps in reducing the overall resource utilization cost, so I don't think people should really complain regarding this cost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

easy setup of alerts with Amazon cloudwatch SNS also with integrating cloudtrail and getting api's

easy setup of alerts with Amazon cloudwatch SNS also with integrating cloudtrail and getting api's Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

visualization ! but I am satisfied with it it is simple and the cost

visualization ! but I am satisfied with it it is simple and the cost

visualization ! but I am satisfied with it it is simple and the cost Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cloudwatch is an AWS-managed monitoring service that gives users excellent insights into their applications. You can store your application logs into cloudwatch using cloudwatch SDK APIs, set alarms for specific events, and take action based on it. Users can also create custom metrics and dashboards based on the data available. You can trigger autoscaling if any metric reaches a certain threshold. You can also analyze and query application logs using cloudwatch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cloudwatch only has some defined free metrics for every service; to build a custom metric, you need to pay extra for each metric. Also, the data retention is limited in cloudwatch compared to other third-party tools available in the market. Also, users cannot transform logs before storing it in cloudwatch, which is a limitation of it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Love that cloudwatch events can be used to trigger AWS Lambda functions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lack of intelligence analyzing AWS logs. We currently analyze our AWS CloudWatch logs using Splunk for lack of a better alternative with CloudWatch. Our approach is to make the CloudWatch events trigger Lambda which then sends the logs to Splunk for processing. Painful and expensive but it works.

The search is also slow and needs improvement compared to more modern tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CloudWatch provides a single pane of glass for monitoring across AWS services. We currently use it for EC2, Dynamo, S3, and Lambda. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CloudWatch's interface can be kind of clunky sometimes, with some options being a few layers deep. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is possible to gather resource metrics data and store it in the Metrics service. In addition to log data gathering, storage, and archiving, the Logging service is useful; also includes a rudimentary log viewer and query functionality, which is referred to as "CloudWatch Logs Insights." Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

non-AWS tools integration,

delay in logs, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CloudWatch is a great low-cost solution for infrastructure monitoring and alerting if you are an AWS customer. You basically get it for free and requires a little setup. If you are not on AWS, you can't enjoy the benefits of CloudWatch, so if you are running multi-cloud, need to think about how you will monitor all of your resources and assets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

No free support, Building CloudWatch dashboards can be cumbersome. You have to navigate through various screens to get the metrics you want to add, You have to build alerts and alarms yourself. CloudWatch does not give you any recommendations, so you have to know what you're doing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Light, smooth, and easy to configure

Filters for text and filters is working accurate most of the time

TTL for logs to remove feature is useful for cost cutting in long run Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Searching is slow if we search with a bunch of longs

allowed to group logs in color mode

allow sending logs over different services like slack and mail or any 3rd party full-featured log system Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's the ability to track all your AWS services in one program and the ability to create all types of dashboards for your services is great.

It is very intuitive to use, one can set alarms so easily and quickly, one of the best things since anyone without programming knowledge can also do this very easily.

It collects a lot of log information if we want it to, this helps us pin point the exact problem to fix the issue.

Easy implementation, just a few lines which one can rinse and repeat when provisioning workloads from code or some radio boxes when doing it dynamically. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Customers have to pay a lot for detailed reports and log storages.

I also feel that for some features the user has to invest a lot of time for learning it.

CloudWatch has no provision to show milliseconds, it shows numbers in 'e' notation which i feel is not a good user experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.