The best part of CloudWatch is the ability to set up and delete alarms that can communicate with Amazon's Lambda service to execute functions automatically. This is useful whenever you need to write something each time a certain level of usage is reached. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

With so many different metric options available, it can sometimes be difficult to get the exact type of metric you want without having to have a large number of metric options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Love metrics and use them for many business items as well, but need utf support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We use metrics a lot and are adding dimentions based on entities we have in our system. Unfortunately metrics only support ascii dimensions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is relatively easy to set up and get running with most AWS services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't care for the way it manages multiline console errors, not sure if there is a way to have those condensed to a single entry in cloud watch. This is generally an issue I see with c# errors in lambdas and ecs containers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

its capabilities like to set high resolution alarms, visualize logs and metrics side by side, take automated actions, troubleshoot issues, and discover insights to optimize your applications, and ensure they are running smoothly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is a lot for improvement required.

Checks for things like EC2 instances often have to be created and maintained individually (eg a CPU check needs to be set for each instance vs at the group/tag level)

Notifications are limited to email addresses, when a lot of us use Slack, Pagerduty, webhooks, or something other than email these days Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ability to monitor our AWS resources (applications, servers, and api activities) in both development and production environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AWS CloudWatch is proprietary monitoring solution and is not extensible by default to other software without considerable integration or writing of glue codes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and management service built for developers, system operators, site reliability engineers (SRE), and IT managers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its can be used only for monitoring of your amazon resources.I rarely run into a situation where what I needed to setup was not immediately clear, and when I did AWS support was quick and helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is a wide range of system stats that you can monitor. The visualizations are intuitive, but not very granular. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I can't monitor disk utilization out of the box. I need have a script run out of cron on the box, and have it post to cloudwatch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CloudWatch is a great tool that enables out of the box monitoring for many services and allows you to speed up your development process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Once you get to a certain scale, CloudWatch becomes very expensive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Users can access CloudWatch functions through an API, command-line tools, one of the AWS SDK or the AWS Management Console. The CloudWatch interface provides current statistics that can be viewed in graph format. Users can set notifications to be sent when something being monitored surpasses a specified threshold. The app can also detect and shut down unused or underused EC2 instances. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Now you can monitor Ram, swap and disk usage via monitoring scripts. Also, you can send custom metrics to CloudWatch. Creating alarms and notification with events and much more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

out of box metrics that could be turned on Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

complexity of ingesting cloudwatch logs with other event management tools such as Netcool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.