Amazon CloudWatch

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Application performance management software for DevOps

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Iddy
Iddy
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Powerful Monitoring Tool

Reviewed on 2025/02/04

My overall experience with Amazon CloudWatch has been positive, especially in terms of monitoring...

My overall experience with Amazon CloudWatch has been positive, especially in terms of monitoring AWS resources and applications in real time. It provides detailed metrics, logs, and alarms, making it a valuable tool for maintaining system health and performance.

Pros

It provides real-time monitoring of AWS resources and applications, with detailed logs and customizable metrics.

Cons

Storing and analyzing large volumes of logs can get expensive, especially without proper retention policies.

Mateja
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Powerful Monitoring with a Steep Learning Curve

Reviewed on 2025/02/27

I am happy with Amazon CloudWatch. It gives a great deal of experience and also is immensely...

I am happy with Amazon CloudWatch. It gives a great deal of experience and also is immensely powerful and very effective in terms of monitoring the AWS sources. The positives are far bigger than the challenge- automation and monitoring done as benefits flow from the other.

Pros

Amazon CloudWatch servers as useful and convenient cloud based service which helps users in the AWS environment to collect and monitor log files and other files. Besides giving a comprehensive view on the number of errors and delivering alarms when certain thresholds are exceeded.

Cons

A considerable disadvantage of Amazon CloudWatch is its price formation, which is often very complicated to deal with. In some cases, especially when a lot of metrics or logs or API calls are being monitored, the charges imposed can increase drastically. The service is rich in what it offers, but sometimes, the complexity of the user interface can be intimidating for novice users, making it hard for such beginners to adjust or learn promptly.

Joseph
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  • Industry: Building Materials
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 3.0 /10

Excellent cloud base service

Reviewed on 2025/03/05

Very satisfied overall as it runs efficiently with almost no need to reboot or upgrade once...

Very satisfied overall as it runs efficiently with almost no need to reboot or upgrade once installed

Pros

Easy to use and efficiency to handle the task at hand works well with most all operating systems. Little or no lag

Cons

Was a little pricy compared to a few others but well worth the price

Harshad
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Managing instance Alarms

Reviewed on 2025/02/06

CloudWatch is the best resource for managing logs and monitoring real-time data in instances. It...

CloudWatch is the best resource for managing logs and monitoring real-time data in instances. It helps to prevent any critical situation and finding out the correct RCA for the activities going on.

Pros

1. Setting up alarms based on critical scenarios is easy with Amazon CloudWatch.
2. We can do real-time monitoring of instances easily.
3. Hassle-free integration with all the other AWS services.

Cons

1. Product cost value and setting up time is more.
2. It helps to show current data to a maximum of 3 months old data. No previous data is stored.
3. There is no customization available in the setting and working of alarms.

Walaa
Walaa
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  • Industry: Pharmaceuticals
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Essential for AWS Monitoring and Management

Reviewed on 2025/01/19

Amazon CloudWatch is an essential tool for monitoring cloud infrastructure, and it integrates...

Amazon CloudWatch is an essential tool for monitoring cloud infrastructure, and it integrates seamlessly with AWS services. While it requires some learning upfront, its robust features make it worth the effort.

Pros

Amazon CloudWatch provides comprehensive monitoring and logging for AWS services, making it easy to track system performance and resolve issues quickly. The dashboards are customizable, and the alerting system is very reliable.

Cons

The pricing can be high for larger-scale applications, and the interface might feel complex for new users. Additionally, the learning curve can be steep if you’re unfamiliar with AWS services.

swaibu
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  • Industry: Computer & Network Security
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Amazon CloudWatch

Reviewed on 2025/01/22

Amazon CloudWatch provides reliable monitoring and logging

Amazon CloudWatch provides reliable monitoring and logging

Pros

To monitor our resources in the AWS account

Cons

its cost, which can quickly escalate with large-scale monitoring and logging, especially without optimized configuration

Lucas
Lucas
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  • Industry: Design
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Amazon CloudWatch is a great choice?

Reviewed on 2025/03/06

Overall, I'd say CloudWatch is a solid choice for monitoring your AWS environment. It's a comprehens...

Overall, I'd say CloudWatch is a solid choice for monitoring your AWS environment. It's a comprehensive tool with a lot to offer, but it's important to be aware of its limitations.

Pros

is cool that you can monitor pretty much anything in your AWS environment, from CPU usage and disk space to custom metrics you define yourself.

It's easy to set up and use, the interface is very intuitive

Cons

The pricing can be a bit confusing, it's not always clear how much you'll be charged for certain features

It's packed with features, which can be great, but it can also be a bit daunting for new users.

feras
feras
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  • Industry: Package/Freight Delivery
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 6-12 months
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Amazon Cloud Watch

Reviewed on 2025/03/15

CloudWatch helped me monitor EC2 servers easily without complicated setup and also has alarms...

CloudWatch helped me monitor EC2 servers easily without complicated setup and also has alarms feature that helps me detect issues quickly.

Pros

Dashboards are designed to display data visually.

Cons

It does not suggest a suitable alternative to the applications.

Ravi
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Comprehensive tool for monitoring our AWS resources

Reviewed on 2025/01/31

Overall, my experience with Amazon CloudWatch has been very good. It is a powerful tool for...

Overall, my experience with Amazon CloudWatch has been very good. It is a powerful tool for monitoring and troubleshooting AWS resources and has helped us get some valuable insights.

Pros

The thing I like the most about Amazon CloudWatch is the ability to create custom dashboards. These dashboards help me visualize data and give valuable insights to my company.

Cons

It can get really expensive really quick if you are monitoring a lot of resources, and we ended up overspending on something we were just testing out.

Sadie
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  • Industry: Cosmetics
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Effective and easy to integrate

Reviewed on 2025/03/06

I had an overall positive experience, even though I didn’t have it for long.

I had an overall positive experience, even though I didn’t have it for long.

Pros

I liked how easy it was to see the cameras in real time without a long delay.

Cons

It can get costly with higher demand and storage.

Agnoor
Agnoor
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Monitoring Vms

Reviewed on 2025/01/17

Overall the product is absolutely helpful to understand and see the metrices of data in a collaborat...

Overall the product is absolutely helpful to understand and see the metrices of data in a collaborative dashboard of all the Regions. Creating tags , alarms are really helpful to avoid spikes and any issues.

Pros

1. Easy integrable with other Amazon services.
2. Processing of logs , notifications and doing real-time monitoring on critical machines is ease with CloudWatch.
3. It is a global service , so no hassle of changing regions, sites for the view.

Cons

1. Analysis of monitors in starting is difficult.
2. Managing services cost is such a tricky process with the usage.

Bharath
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Monitoring of instances

Reviewed on 2024/11/25

Absolutely wonderful product for monitoring of all the AWS resources together and checkout any gaps...

Absolutely wonderful product for monitoring of all the AWS resources together and checkout any gaps and issues effectively. We can create realtime metrics and charts of the EC2 resources.

Pros

1. It's very scalable and monitoring EC2, services is an easy and quick job with Cloudwatch.
2. Intuitive UI and highly integrable with all the AWS resources which facilate automated monitoring.
3. Customize dashboard according to queries and quick report availability.

Cons

1. Analysis of logs is somehow a tough job.
2. Complex implementation and filter addition.
3. Cost are based on the monitoring of resource.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for Free Trial
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

My Experience of Amazon CloudWatch

Reviewed on 2025/01/04

Overall Experience is positive with these things.
1. CloudWatch Excels at offering detailed...

Overall Experience is positive with these things.
1. CloudWatch Excels at offering detailed insights into aws resources.
2. Customize dashboard as per need

it is a versatile solution for monitoring for simplify observation and insights of operations.

Pros

CloudWatch Alarms are highly configurable.
When Any thresholds are breached sends Notifications that enable quick response to an issue.
Seamless integration with Aws services

Cons

CloudWatch Pricing structure can become confusing and expensive especially when dealing with high metrics, logs and alarms.
Dashboard are customizable but built-in visualization are so basic.

Stéphane
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  • Industry: Oil & Energy
  • Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Great monitoring service

Reviewed on 2024/08/04

Pros

I was able to capture metrics of my EC2 instances every minute and take action quickly if necessary.

Cons

It is imperative to install the CloudWatch agent on instances using my custom AMI.

Overall rating
  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Good tool to monitor AWS resources

Reviewed on 2025/01/09

Here’s a more relaxed version:

Overall, I think CloudWatch is pretty solid. It’s good for keeping...

Here’s a more relaxed version:

Overall, I think CloudWatch is pretty solid. It’s good for keeping track of things and works well with other AWS stuff. The learning curve and pricing can be a bit annoying sometimes, but it gets the job done and helps me stay on top of things.

Pros

A centralised Dashboard to view and monitor all of my resources from one place. It is easy to set up Cloud Watch with multiple AWS resources, such as EC2 instances, ECS instances, and RDS database instances.

Cons

Some of the advanced features, like custom metrics, took a little while to figure out.

Mikaela
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  • Industry: Consumer Services
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for Free Trial
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Good Product

Reviewed on 2024/12/16

Overall I really liked it I found it very reliable

Overall I really liked it I found it very reliable

Pros

I liked how reliable and organized the software is

Cons

I wish they were a little more direct on finding what you need

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Overall it is Okay

Reviewed on 2023/10/17

We have been using Cloudwatch for quite some time to monitor our AWS Infra which includes ECS,...

We have been using Cloudwatch for quite some time to monitor our AWS Infra which includes ECS, Opensearch, Redis, EC2 InstancesIt performs well in terms of logs and metric queryingAlerts set up performs well

Pros

We can view logs and metrics in real-time and even those in the pastMore or less easy to configure and useNotification is available based on alertsOptimized for AWS Services

Cons

It quite costlyThe interface could have been easier to use

Amy
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  • Industry: Government Administration
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Amy's review

Reviewed on 2024/12/30

It was very beneficial! I learn something new everyday. I would love to learn new things on here.

It was very beneficial! I learn something new everyday. I would love to learn new things on here.

Pros

Amazon CloudWatch is great and very useful! It provides great resources and essential learning skills.

Cons

Nothing. It is great to use. I don't have any complaints.

HITESH
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Weekly for Free Trial
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Nice cloudwatch

Reviewed on 2025/01/27

1.Ease of Monitoring
2.Proactive Management
3.Integration
4.Customization
5.Scalability

1.Ease of Monitoring
2.Proactive Management
3.Integration
4.Customization
5.Scalability

Pros

1.Comprehensive Monitoring
2.Real-Time Alerts
3.Custom Dashboards
4.Integration with AWS Services
5.Automated Actions

Cons

1.Complex Pricing
2.Steep Learning Curve
3.Limited Customization
4.Log Management Costs
5.Alert Fatigue

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Retail
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Monitor Your AWS Applications The Performance , Metrics And Logging

Reviewed on 2024/02/07

Cloudwatch gives you the logging data to solve your problems and bugs with alerting functionality....

Cloudwatch gives you the logging data to solve your problems and bugs with alerting functionality. Easily get the information to troubleshoot. The alerting is a little complex to setup.

Pros

- easy to use
- builtin with AWS
- long data retention period
- collect and track your metrics

Cons

- it's only basic monitoring
- the alerting could be better
- it has a limitation for event fields

Aiden
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 1-5 months
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Good especially for large teams

Reviewed on 2024/12/23

Pros

Easy to integrate with AWS which is extremely useful in managing those deployments (my main use case). The real time monitoring features are also extremely useful.

Cons

I would be weary if working independently and using AWS services as a whole. I have had personal experiences with over charging for resources that I hadn’t used.

Prayag
Prayag
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  • Industry: Computer & Network Security
  • Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Great for log metrics

Reviewed on 2023/11/15

Pros

Great for logging app metrics, cloud watch alarms and visualization

Cons

Nothing so far but yes need to aee integration with third party

Donny
Donny
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Cloudwatch is great for Application Logs!

Reviewed on 2023/06/28

Our experience has been good and has helped us catch issues and solve them before anyone notices!

Our experience has been good and has helped us catch issues and solve them before anyone notices!

Pros

It is easy to go into Amazon Cloudwatch and see if we are having any issues with our websites or APIs.

Cons

So far we have had no issues with Amazon Cloudwatch.

Terrance
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  • Industry: Consumer Services
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 1-5 months
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  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

CloudWatch, watch out Apple!

Reviewed on 2024/12/16

Pros

Excellent service and product to save info!

Cons

Nothing at all! Everything works well with this software.

pathmika
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Amazing monitoring tool

Reviewed on 2023/04/28

Pros

Our team is using cloud watch to monitor log files, monitor issues and changes of the AWS resources in the real time. As a company we get lots of benefits since we can identify the issues before impact those to our project.

Cons

This is expensive product and some of the companies cannot afford it.