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Amazon CloudWatch

Observe and monitor resources and applications on AWS, on premises, and on other clouds

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Why CloudWatch?

Amazon CloudWatch is a service that monitors applications, responds to performance changes, optimizes resource use, and provides insights into operational health. By collecting data across AWS resources, CloudWatch gives visibility into system-wide performance and allows users to set alarms, automatically react to changes, and gain a unified view of operational health.

Benefits

Visualize and analyze your data with end-to-end observability

Collect, access, and analyze your resource and application data using powerful visualization tools

Operate efficiently with automation

Improve operational performance using alarms and automated actions set to activate at predetermined thresholds

Quickly obtain an integrated view of your AWS or other resources

Seamlessly integrate with more than 70 AWS services for simplified monitoring and scalability

Proactively monitor and get actional insights to enhance end user experiences

Troubleshoot operational problems with actionable insights derived from logs and metrics in your CloudWatch dashboards

Use cases

Monitor application performance

Visualize performance data, create alarms, and correlate data to understand and resolve the root cause of performance issues in your AWS resources

Perform root cause analysis

Analyze metrics, logs, logs analytics, and user requests to speed up debugging and reduce overall mean time to resolution

Optimize resources proactively

Automate resource planning and lower costs by setting actions to occur when thresholds are met based on your specifications or machine learning models