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AWS CloudWatch

AWS CloudWatch

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What is AWS CloudWatch?

Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and observability service built for DevOps engineers, developers, SREs (Site Reliability Engineers), and IT managers. It provides data and actionable insights to monitor applications, respond to system-wide performance changes, optimize resource utilization, and gain a unified view of operational health. Common uses include monitoring CPU utilization, disk I/O, and network traffic, setting alarms based on metrics, and analyzing log data for troubleshooting.

What other technologies are related to AWS CloudWatch?

AWS CloudWatch Competitor Technologies

Datadog offers similar monitoring and logging capabilities to CloudWatch, but often with more advanced features and integrations.
mentioned alongside AWS CloudWatch in 14% (13.2k) of relevant job posts
Prometheus is an open-source monitoring solution that competes with CloudWatch, particularly for containerized environments.
mentioned alongside AWS CloudWatch in 9% (11.7k) of relevant job posts
New Relic offers comprehensive monitoring and observability, competing with CloudWatch in terms of breadth and depth of features.
mentioned alongside AWS CloudWatch in 14% (7k) of relevant job posts

AWS CloudWatch Complementary Technologies

Lambda functions can be monitored using CloudWatch metrics and logs.
mentioned alongside AWS CloudWatch in 17% (33.2k) of relevant job posts
EC2 instances generate metrics and logs that can be ingested and monitored by CloudWatch.
mentioned alongside AWS CloudWatch in 19% (29.7k) of relevant job posts
CloudTrail logs are a valuable source of audit and compliance information that can be sent to CloudWatch Logs.
mentioned alongside AWS CloudWatch in 63% (8.6k) of relevant job posts

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