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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.
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
Pros of Statusbot
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Cons of Amazon CloudWatch
- Poor Search Capabilities2