Amazon CloudWatch vs Statusbot

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Amazon CloudWatch vs Statusbot: What are the differences?

Developers describe Amazon CloudWatch 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. On the other hand, Statusbot is detailed as "API for monitoring all status pages". Statusbot is a RESTful API that allows you to programmatically monitor the status pages of mission-critical services on which your business depends. With API endpoints for service statuses, incident updates, and maintenance alerts, Statusbot will always keep you in the know.

Amazon CloudWatch and Statusbot can be categorized as "Cloud Monitoring" tools.

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Pros of Amazon CloudWatch
Pros of Statusbot
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    Monitor aws resources
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    Zero setup
  • 30
    Detailed Monitoring
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    Backed by Amazon
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    Auto Scaling groups
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    SNS and autoscaling integrations
  • 5
    Burstable instances metrics (t2 cpu credit balance)
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    HIPAA/PCI/SOC Compliance-friendly
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    Native tool for AWS so understand AWS out of the box
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      What is 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.

      What is Statusbot?

      Statusbot is a RESTful API that allows you to programmatically monitor the status pages of mission-critical services on which your business depends. With API endpoints for service statuses, incident updates, and maintenance alerts, Statusbot will always keep you in the know.

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