What is AWS Config and what are its top alternatives?
Top Alternatives to AWS Config
- AWS CloudTrail
With CloudTrail, you can get a history of AWS API calls for your account, including API calls made via the AWS Management Console, AWS SDKs, command line tools, and higher-level AWS services (such as AWS CloudFormation). The AWS API call history produced by CloudTrail enables security analysis, resource change tracking, and compliance auditing. The recorded information includes the identity of the API caller, the time of the API call, the source IP address of the API caller, the request parameters, and the response elements returned by the AWS service. ...
- 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. ...
- Stackdriver
Google Stackdriver provides powerful monitoring, logging, and diagnostics. It equips you with insight into the health, performance, and availability of cloud-powered applications, enabling you to find and fix issues faster. ...
- DigitalOcean Monitoring
Collect metrics for visibility, monitor Droplet performance, and receive alerts when problems arise in your infrastructure – at no additional cost. ...
- stts
With a click of the menubar icon, you can see the status of your favorite services. You can also be notified when a service goes down or gets restored. stts is designed to be unobtrusive, only giving you the information you need and allowing you to access the status page with a single click. ...
- Lumigo
With a single click and no manual code changes, Lumigo visualizes your entire serverless environment, allowing you to see the full story of every transaction or request from beginning to end. ...
- Cloudability
Cloudability aggregates expenditures into accessible and comprehensive reports, helps identify new opportunities for reducing spend and increasing cloud efficiency, offers budget alerts and recommendations via SMS and email, provides APIs for connecting cloud billing and usage data to any business or financial system, and more. ...
- CloudCheckr
CloudCheckr provides otherwise unavailable visibility and analytics to remove the complexity from AWS usage. Our users quickly and efficiently gain control of their deployment, reduce costs, and optimize infrastructure performance. ...
AWS Config alternatives & related posts
AWS CloudTrail
- Very easy setup7
- Good integrations with 3rd party tools3
- Very powerful2
- Backup to S32
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Amazon CloudWatch
- Monitor aws resources76
- Zero setup46
- Detailed Monitoring30
- Backed by Amazon23
- Auto Scaling groups19
- SNS and autoscaling integrations11
- Burstable instances metrics (t2 cpu credit balance)5
- HIPAA/PCI/SOC Compliance-friendly3
- Native tool for AWS so understand AWS out of the box1
- Poor Search Capabilities1
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We build everything in AWS around microservices and are looking at Amazon CloudWatch, Datadog, and New Relic. Which one would work best for our situation?
Stackdriver
- Monitoring19
- Logging11
- Alerting8
- Tracing7
- Uptime Monitoring6
- Error Reporting5
- Multi-cloud4
- Production debugger3
- Many integrations2
- Backed by Google1
- Configured basically with GAE1
- Not free2
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Need advice on this.
Which one should I use for logging and error monitoring ( Datadog / Sentry / Stackdriver )?
Open to any other solutions.
- Easy, no fuss and great documentation3
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stts
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- Saves hour debugging9
- Out-of-box alerts9
- Detecting and mitigating latencies9
- Great customer support9
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- Cloud usage stats5
- Cloud cost monitoring3
- Track costs2
- Suggestions on which instances should be reserved1
- Ability to build dashboards (public or private)0
- Easy setup0
- Container friendly0
- Datadog and JIRA Integration0
- AWS, GCP, and Azure support0
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CloudCheckr
- Powerful S3 reports2
- Powerful Reserved Instances reports1
- Easy setup1
- CloudTrail integration1
- Cost Tracking1