Draw Backs of Amazon Cloudwatch
- Cloud Watch can be expensive, especially for large-scale monitoring and logging needs.
- Cloud Watch may not be able to handle large amounts of log data, especially during spikes in usage, making it difficult to maintain a consistent level of monitoring and logging.
- The monitoring and logging processes of CloudWatch can consume significant system resources, impacting the overall performance of an application.
- Integrating CloudWatch with other AWS services and third-party tools can be challenging.
- Setting up and managing CloudWatch can be complex, especially for users who are not familiar with cloud-based systems.
Introduction to Amazon Cloudwatch
Amazon CloudWatch is a service used for monitoring and observing resources in real-time, built for DevOps engineers, developers, site reliability engineers (SREs), and IT managers. CloudWatch provides users with data and actionable insights to monitor their respective applications, stimulate system-wide performance changes, and optimize resource utilization. CloudWatch collects monitoring and operational data in the form of logs, metrics, and events, providing its users with an aggregated view of AWS resources, applications, and services that run on AWS. The CloudWatch can also be used to detect anomalous behavior in the environments, set warnings and alarms, visualize logs and metrics side by side, take automated actions, and troubleshoot issues.