alkesh g.
AG
alkesh g.
Cloud Architect
Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"The best monitoring service offered by amazon!!"
4/5
What do you like best about Amazon CloudWatch?

i have been working with Amazon CloudWatch , and it ease the work managing AWS resources and AWS services which includes Amazon EC2,EBS,S3, and there is no limit on the number of instances, with that you can monitor your instance with various monitoring aspects and different parameters, you can also able to download the generated matrices and also watch on the console,you can also set alarm threshold and define the actions to take which is very interesting feature of AWS cloudWatch!!

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What do you dislike about Amazon CloudWatch?

the Quality of support is not so good , and pricing are little bit high!! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

saikiran c.
SC
saikiran c.
Analyst
Information Technology and Services
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Amazon cloud watch"
3.5/5
What do you like best about Amazon CloudWatch?

Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and management service built for developers, system operators, site reliability engineers (SRE), and IT managers. CloudWatch provides you with data and actionable insights to monitor your applications, understand and respond to system-wide performance changes, optimize resource utilization, and get a unified view of operational health. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudWatch?

I've been hesitant to write about it because it feels like beating a dead horse, but so many people seem surprised by it, what harm can it do? Every synthetic and real-world benchmark that we've run are consistent with what virtually everyone else has observed. EC2's price-to-performance ratio is horrible. Although this is particularly noticeable with EC2, which can be anywhere from 1-5x more expensive and 2-8x slower, it's true of AWS in general (s3, cloudfront, route53 aren't the fastest options available). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Johnny P.
JP
Johnny P.
Staff Software Engineer
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Great cloud monitoring service for our workloads"
4/5
What do you like best about Amazon CloudWatch?

I love Amazon Cloudwatch for it's ease of integration with other products and also because of it's ease of use and pricing. AWS is the least expensive cloud provider out there, does excellent user experience research because their products are super easy to use. Additionally the configuration is seamless and the monitoring is thorough. Amazon is constantly suprising me with the quality of their products and Cloudwatch is not an exception Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudWatch?

I do not like how it does not integrate with a few of our on-prem applications. This unfortunately requires us to two multiple vendors as a result and increases cost in the end. Additionally while the user interface is very intuitive the issue is that it hides a lot of complexity and some of the more complex configuration patterns are obtuse as a result Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
UC
Verified User in Computer Software
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Powerful Tool for Application Management"
4/5
What do you like best about Amazon CloudWatch?

The integration of Cloudwatch with AWS's entire platform. Implementation for logging is as simple as linking applications and Lambda functions. No longer does one have to manually manage system logs in low level servers. Cloudwatch allows for metrics other than logging such as realtime application performance and urgent error attention notifications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudWatch?

The Cloudwatch platform is not intuitive to use. There is a large learning curve to the system and notifications are obnoxious rather than helpful. Application prioritization is not available and interface is unchangeable. Alarms are unorganized and do not clearly show metrics such as Application and date/time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Media Production
UM
Verified User in Media Production
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"My Amazon CloudWatch opinion"
3.5/5
What do you like best about Amazon CloudWatch?

It must be strongly to get access to all your data from a single platform. The Cloud Watch API can be used to easily collect, publish and store this data.

The best and most remarkable thing is that with Amazon CloudWatch, there are no initial commitments or minimum rates, you only pay for what you use. Use is charged at the end of the month.

Access from different platforms, such as API, command line interface (CLI), SDKs and the AWS administration console.

You can use logs that allow you to use the customized logs, the system and the applications you already have to monitor the systems and identify problems that arise in systems and applications. in real time they can be monitored to detect certain phrases, values ​​or patterns. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudWatch?

The negative is the payment, since you can not control what you have spent, so at the time of invoicing, the program invoices what you have used but there is no detail until the billing is done, which would change. Slight connectivity problems since it works with data in the cloud and online and if the server is being used, at least as I have used it, if it is more than 80% it is noticeably slowed down access to the cloud, so that partial and independent servers would also be another option that could be considered. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Ashish R.
Data engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Watching cloud"
4/5
What do you like best about Amazon CloudWatch?

this is cool product. No need to worry about watching our Cloud as Cloudwatch do it for us and make it very easy and efficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudWatch?

the console could be more user friendly. It do better job at displaying information. Can provi Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Public Relations and Communications
UP
Verified User in Public Relations and Communications
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"CloudWatch gives raw data - up to you to sift through it"
4/5
What do you like best about Amazon CloudWatch?

You can get CloudWatch to provide a LOT of logging detail Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudWatch?

Finding information in CloudWatch can feel a bit like searching for a needle in a haystack Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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james t.
Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Review "
4/5
What do you like best about Amazon CloudWatch?

Simple setup, and the ability to understand the working of the overall solution through the information provided by the product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudWatch?

Would like to see more information provided on memory utilisation of EC2 instances without additional agents Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
UC
Verified User in Computer Software
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Need realtime metrics data"
3.5/5
What do you like best about Amazon CloudWatch?

Cloudwatch is great when looking at a glance the health of our services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudWatch?

Metrics can be delayed, ~15mins at times, and it becomes less useful when trying to debug production problems happening in realtime. This is especailly true in terms of monitoring and alerting through datadog with cloudwatch integrates with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
UC
Verified User in Computer Software
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"Relatively easy to use, confusing naming"
3.5/5
What do you like best about Amazon CloudWatch?

Minimal interface, pretty intuitive, lots of functionality. Let's you schedule actions or trigger actions in response to events in your AWS environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudWatch?

AWS service names are confusing -- I thought CloudWatch was used for logging, didn't know it could also be used to schedule actions as well. The cron expressions used to select when to run actions are a bit of a hassle to figure out -- AWS could easily design a GUI for this or link to more concise documentation with better examples. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.