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Airbrake vs Amazon CloudWatch: What are the differences?
Developers describe Airbrake as "Airbrake captures and groups errors in Ruby, iOS, Django, PHP & more". Airbrake collects errors for your applications in all major languages and frameworks. We alert you to new errors and give you critical context, trends and details needed to find and fix errors fast. On the other hand, Amazon CloudWatch is detailed as "Monitor AWS resources and custom metrics generated by your applications and services". With Amazon CloudWatch, you gain system-wide visibility into resource utilization, application performance, and operational health. Programmatically retrieve your monitoring data, view graphs, and set alarms to help you troubleshoot, spot trends, and take automated action based on the state of your cloud environment.
Airbrake can be classified as a tool in the "Exception Monitoring" category, while Amazon CloudWatch is grouped under "Cloud Monitoring".
Some of the features offered by Airbrake are:
- Dupe Detection- Developers will only receive an email once when an error occurs — rather than getting buried under an error email avalanche.
- Auto Resolve- An action on each application deployment — that way developers can focus on the problems that exist today, not the ones from last month.
- Github Aware- Airbrake is github-aware, and can link code in your Airbrake error stack traces to the corresponding locations on github.
On the other hand, Amazon CloudWatch provides the following key features:
- Basic Monitoring for Amazon EC2 instances: ten pre-selected metrics at five-minute frequency, free of charge.
- Detailed Monitoring for Amazon EC2 instances: seven pre-selected metrics at one-minute frequency, for an additional charge.
- Amazon EBS volumes: eight pre-selected metrics at five-minute frequency, free of charge.
"Reliable" is the primary reason why developers consider Airbrake over the competitors, whereas "Monitor aws resources" was stated as the key factor in picking Amazon CloudWatch.
Airbnb, 9GAG, and Asana are some of the popular companies that use Amazon CloudWatch, whereas Airbrake is used by Stack Exchange, thoughtbot, and Mailgun. Amazon CloudWatch has a broader approval, being mentioned in 721 company stacks & 334 developers stacks; compared to Airbrake, which is listed in 91 company stacks and 22 developer stacks.
Pros of Airbrake
- Reliable28
- Consolidates similar errors25
- Easy setup22
- Slack Integration15
- Github Integration10
- Email notifications7
- Includes a free plan6
- Android Application to view errors.5
- Search and filtering4
- Shows request parameters4
- Heroku integration2
Pros of 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
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Cons of Airbrake
- Rejects error report if non-latin characters exists0
Cons of Amazon CloudWatch
- Poor Search Capabilities2
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