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About

Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and observability service built for DevOps engineers, developers, site reliability engineers (SREs), and IT managers. CloudWatch provides you with data and actionable insights to monitor your applications, respond to system-wide performance changes, optimize resource utilization, and get a unified view of operational health. CloudWatch collects monitoring and operational data in the form of logs, metrics, and events, providing you with a unified view of AWS resources, applications, and services that run on AWS and on-premises servers. You can use CloudWatch to detect anomalous behavior in your environments, set alarms, visualize logs and metrics side by side, take automated actions, troubleshoot issues, and discover insights to keep your applications. CloudWatch alarms watch your metric values against thresholds that you specify or that it creates using ML models to detect anomalous behavior.

About

Better Stack is an eBPF-based, AI SRE observability tool that helps you ship better software, faster. Schedule on-call rotations, receive actionable alerts, and resolve incidents with ease. Better Stack brings together incident management, uptime monitoring, status pages, log management, and infrastructure monitoring – all in one place. Built for speed and scale, it combines multiple monitoring and alerting workflows into a single, powerful interface that boosts visibility and slashes response times. Key features include an OpenTelemetry-native Kubernetes collector powered by eBPF, real-time alerting, and collaborative dashboards. Under the hood, Better Stack runs on ClickHouse, enabling lightning-fast queries and scalable ingestion across high-cardinality datasets. You can visualize your entire stack, turn all your logs into structured data, and query everything with SQL – as if it were a single database. Seamlessly integrates into your workflow with 100+ integrations.

Platforms Supported

Windows Not Supported
Mac Not Supported
Linux Not Supported
Cloud Supported
On-Premises Supported
iPhone Not Supported
iPad Not Supported
Android Not Supported
Chromebook Not Supported

Platforms Supported

Windows Not Supported
Mac Not Supported
Linux Not Supported
Cloud Supported
On-Premises Not Supported
iPhone Supported
iPad Supported
Android Supported
Chromebook Not Supported

Audience

Organizations that use AWS searching for a tool to manage their resources and applications

Audience

Engineering teams of all sizes – from startups to Fortune 500 companies.

Support

Phone Support Not Supported
24/7 Live Support Not Supported
Online Not Supported

Support

Phone Support Supported
24/7 Live Support Supported
Online Supported

API

Offers API Not Supported

API

Offers API Supported

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

No information available.
Free Version Not Supported
Free Trial Not Supported

Pricing

$29 per month
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Free Version Supported
Free Trial Supported

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 4.3 / 5
ease 4.3 / 5
features 5.0 / 5
design 4.7 / 5
support 4.0 / 5

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 4.9 / 5
ease 5.0 / 5
features 4.9 / 5
design 4.3 / 5
support 5.0 / 5

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • When dealing with such a large web system it's incredibly helpful to have CloudWatch doing a lot of the hard work for you and providing the valuable data and actionable items needed.
  • Easily manages logs period. Easy to install and set up. Time and money saving. Great dashboard customization options to add metrics.
  • Easy implementation. Real time monitoring. Alarms based on custom triggers. Easy integration with AWS Services like SNS or Lambda. Schedule events. Cost-effective - only pay for what you use.

Cons

  • I have found that the support help for this management service is slow to process questions and doesn't have many experts on the team to provide answers to the questions that arise.
  • It works only on Amazon affiliated service otherwise is a good tool to have and better than third party software.
  • Needs to mature into a standalone app which can be integrated with other clouds platforms or tools.

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • Able to monitor my clients websites by keyword, hosting and different ways. Able to create status reports. Receive sms and phone call is a site goes down. Great UI.
  • Uptime is a reliable and complex solution for us. Great plus are the advanced escalation policies and heartbeats, checking if our background jobs get done.
  • Simple setup. Highly reliable (didn't miss a thing so far). Friendly UI, intuitive workflow. Heartbeats for CRON jobs are a great touch. Highly customizable call scheduling. Loads of integrations. Helpful and friendly support.
  • Easy to setup and use. Intuitive design and UX. Free tier is really good for being free. Checks every 3 minutes. Monitors for prescheduled tasks. Very reliable.
  • Fast and reliable incident reporting. Error screenshots and logs. Ping checks every 30 seconds. Heartbeats checking cronjobs. Customizable status pages on custom subdomains.

Cons

  • Sometimes I get notifications saying a site is down but it's not. It's a bit confusing to set up. I don't know what's happening when it gives me error code for some reason but website has not gone down.
  • I didn't really notice any big issues with the service's functionality. We'd appreciate Dark Mode, Telegram integration and some of the advanced features could be available on their lower-tier plans.
  • Status pages lack a few features, but it seems some related updates are coming soon.
  • I'm a student and payed plans are out of my reach, but no big problem with free tier.
  • I'd welcome some of the advanced features in the freelancer plan. Otherwise, not much to complain about.

Training

Documentation Supported
Webinars Not Supported
Live Online Not Supported
In Person Not Supported

Training

Documentation Supported
Webinars Supported
Live Online Supported
In Person Supported

Company Information

Amazon
Founded: 1994
United States
aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/

Company Information

Better Stack
Founded: 2021
United States
betterstack.com

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Alternatives

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Site24x7

Site24x7

ManageEngine

Categories

Categories

System Monitoring Features

Alerts / Notifications Not Supported
Antivirus Management Not Supported
Data Backup / Recovery Not Supported
Device Monitoring Not Supported
Inventory Management Not Supported
Patch Management Not Supported
Policy-based Automation Supported
Remote Monitoring Supported
Reporting / Analytics Supported
Risk Analysis Not Supported
Server Monitoring Supported
Service Configuration Management Supported

Website Monitoring Features

Availability Testing Supported
Event Logs Supported
Event-Based Notifications Supported
FTP Monitoring Not Supported
Mail Server Monitoring Not Supported
Maintenance Scheduling Not Supported
Performance Metrics Supported
Real Time Monitoring Supported
Transaction Monitoring Supported
Uptime Reporting Supported

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Features

Baseline Manager Not Supported
Diagnostic Tools Supported
Full Transaction Diagnostics Supported
Performance Control Supported
Resource Management Supported
Root-Cause Diagnosis Supported
Server Performance Supported
Trace Individual Transactions Supported

Automated Testing Features

Hierarchical View Supported
Move & Copy Supported
Parameterized Testing Not Supported
Requirements-Based Testing Supported
Security Testing Supported
Supports Parallel Execution Not Supported
Test Script Reviews Not Supported
Unicode Compliance Supported

Cloud Management Features

Access Control Not Supported
Billing & Provisioning Supported
Capacity Analytics Not Supported
Cost Management Supported
Demand Monitoring Not Supported
Multi-Cloud Management Supported
Performance Analytics Supported
SLA Management Supported
Supply Monitoring Supported
Workflow Approval Not Supported

DevOps Features

Approval Workflow Not Supported
Dashboard Supported
KPIs Supported
Policy Management Supported
Portfolio Management Not Supported
Prioritization Supported
Release Management Supported
Timeline Management Not Supported
Troubleshooting Reports Supported

Vulnerability Management Features

Asset Discovery Supported
Asset Tagging Not Supported
Network Scanning Supported
Patch Management Not Supported
Policy Management Supported
Prioritization Supported
Risk Management Supported
Vulnerability Assessment Supported
Web Scanning Not Supported

Workload Automation Features

Alerts / Notifications Supported
Audit Trails Supported
Business Process Management Not Supported
Cross-Platform Scheduling Supported
Dashboard Supported
Data Analysis / Visualization Supported
Event-Triggers Supported
Load Balancing Supported
Resource-Based Scheduling Supported
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Supported
Workflow Foundation Support Supported

IT Infrastructure Monitoring Features

Alerts / Notifications Supported
Application Monitoring Supported
Bandwidth Monitoring Not Supported
Capacity Planning Not Supported
Configuration Change Management Supported
Data Movement Monitoring Supported
Health Monitoring Supported
Multi-Platform Support Supported
Performance Monitoring Supported
Point-in-Time Visibility Not Supported
Reporting / Analytics Supported
Virtual Machine Monitoring Supported

System Monitoring Features

Alerts / Notifications Supported
Antivirus Management Not Supported
Data Backup / Recovery Supported
Device Monitoring Supported
Inventory Management Not Supported
Patch Management Supported
Policy-based Automation Supported
Remote Monitoring Supported
Reporting / Analytics Supported
Risk Analysis Not Supported
Server Monitoring Supported
Service Configuration Management Supported

Website Monitoring Features

Availability Testing Supported
Event Logs Supported
Event-Based Notifications Supported
FTP Monitoring Supported
Mail Server Monitoring Supported
Maintenance Scheduling Supported
Performance Metrics Supported
Real Time Monitoring Supported
Transaction Monitoring Supported
Uptime Reporting Supported

Incident Management Features

Audit Trail Supported
Corrective Actions (CAPA) Supported
Disaster Recovery Supported
Incident Reporting Supported
IT Incident Management Not Supported
OSHA Compliance Supported
Root-Cause Diagnosis Supported
Safety Management Not Supported
Task Management Supported
Ticket Management Supported

Network Monitoring Features

Bandwidth Monitoring Supported
Baseline Manager Supported
Diagnostic Tools Supported
Internet Usage Monitoring Not Supported
IP Address Monitoring Supported
Real Time Analytics Supported
Resource Management Not Supported
Server Monitoring Supported
SLA Monitoring Supported
Uptime Monitoring Supported
Web Traffic Reporting Supported

Integrations

Logstash Supported
PagerDuty Supported
Stackreaction Supported
ASPIRE Health Supported
AWS DevOps Agent Supported
AWS RoboMaker Supported
AWS Site-to-Site VPN Supported
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Not Supported
Amazon Lookout for Metrics Supported
Geckoboard Supported
Google Calendar Not Supported
Google Cloud Platform Not Supported
Kapacitor Supported
Klera Supported
Logit.io Supported
Panaseer Supported
Selector Analytics Supported
TCPWave Supported
Tessell Supported
Togai Supported

Integrations

Logstash Supported
PagerDuty Supported
Stackreaction Supported
ASPIRE Health Not Supported
AWS DevOps Agent Not Supported
AWS RoboMaker Not Supported
AWS Site-to-Site VPN Not Supported
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Supported
Amazon Lookout for Metrics Not Supported
Geckoboard Not Supported
Google Calendar Supported
Google Cloud Platform Supported
Kapacitor Not Supported
Klera Not Supported
Logit.io Not Supported
Panaseer Not Supported
Selector Analytics Not Supported
TCPWave Not Supported
Tessell Not Supported
Togai Not Supported
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