Amazon CloudWatch

Monitoring / Observability: Amazon CloudWatch

CloudWatch is AWS's monitoring and observability service that tracks metrics, logs, and events across AWS resources and applications. It provides real-time analytics and monitoring insights. It also triggers alerts and automated responses based on specific thresholds.‍

Use case examples

• Real-time resource monitoring and alerting
• Managing logs and metrics across AWS resources
• Creating dashboards for application performance
• Auto-scaling and self-healing
• Security and compliance monitoring

Multiple Services Use Case

A company hosts infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and an on-premise data center. It uses Amazon CloudWatch for monitoring AWS resources and Azure Monitor for covering on-premise and Azure-based services.