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MonitoringWhat is Amazon GuardDuty?
It is a managed threat detection service that continuously monitors for malicious or unauthorized behavior to help you protect your AWS accounts and workloads. It monitors for activity such as unusual API calls or potentially unauthorized deployments that indicate a possible account compromise. It also detects potentially compromised instances or reconnaissance by attackers.
Amazon GuardDuty is a tool in the Monitoring category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Accurate, account-level threat detectionContinuous monitoring across AWS accounts without added cost and complexityThreat detections developed and optimized for the cloudThreat severity levels for efficient prioritizationAutomate threat response and remediationHighly available threat detectionOne-click deployment with no additional software or infrastructure to deploy and manage
Amazon GuardDuty Pros & Cons
Pros of Amazon GuardDuty
- ✓Easy setup
Cons of Amazon GuardDuty
No cons listed yet.
Amazon GuardDuty Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Amazon GuardDuty?
Kibana
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Grafana
Grafana is a general purpose dashboard and graph composer. It's focused on providing rich ways to visualize time series metrics, mainly though graphs but supports other ways to visualize data through a pluggable panel architecture. It currently has rich support for for Graphite, InfluxDB and OpenTSDB. But supports other data sources via plugins.
Amazon CloudWatch
It helps you gain system-wide visibility into resource utilization, application performance, and operational health. It retrieve your monitoring data, view graphs to help take automated action based on the state of your cloud environment.
