AWS Monitoring Tool
AWS monitoring allows you to track the health, performance, and uptime of cloud resources and the application workloads running on Amazon Web Service. Monitor specific CloudWatch metrics for over 50 AWS monitors, automatically discover new instances and gain visibility into your infrastructure using our AWS monitoring tool.
The Site24x7 AWS monitoring tool enables comprehensive monitoring of your Amazon cloud infrastructure with pre-configured solutions, resource usage analysis, and dynamic workload adaptation.
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50+ services monitored by Site24x7 AWS cloud monitoring tool
At Site24x7, we recognize the continuous evolution of AWS services that you use to deliver your applications. Our unified platform offers over 50 integrations of diverse AWS monitors that cater to your constantly changing cloud requirements. With our advanced AWS monitoring tools, you can go beyond CloudWatch monitoring and achieve more.
Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Instance level performance stats, system level data, status check failure alerts along with log support to help you analyze every aspect of your compute environment. Integrate with the CloudWatch agent for in-depth metrics.
Lambda
Analyze the behavior of your serverless lambda functions. Troubleshoot function execution errors with log support to tune the performance of your application code.
Elastic Beanstalk
Alert on environment status, track additional metrics from the OS and web server logs and view events and notifications emitted by your application for a comprehesive view.
Elastic Container Service (ECS)
Monitor the CPU and memory utilization and reservation metrics on both a cluster and service level to effectively manage your Docker environment.
Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
Track the health and utilization metrics of Kuberenetes running in the AWS cloud for clusters, nodes, and namespaces at service-level and pod-level.
Lightsail Instance
Deep dive into the health metrics of your virtual server deployed in the Amazon cloud with our agentless Lightsail Instance monitoring.
Simple Storage Service (S3)
Monitor the full range of S3 metrics (request, storage and data transfer).Configure checks for your object URL endpoints to measure response time from global locations.
S3 Object
Proactively monitor your S3 object URLS. Run automated checks from global locations and be the first to know when they become slow or down.
Elastic Block Storage (EBS)
Monitor resource usage across a variety of metrics to get complete insight into the operational behavior of your block-level storage volumes attached to your instance.
Elastic File System (EFS)
Track burst balance, client connections, bytes transferred and more for file systems mounted on EC2 instances and on-premises servers.
Storage Gateway
Monitor file gateway, volume gateway, and tape gateway to gather key metrics, and get notified when the gateway operations are done or if a metric(s) falls outside a defined threshold.
Amazon FSx
Monitor your file systems like the windows file server hosted in the Amazon cloud, and set automation to create a backup of the file system.
Relational Database Service (RDS)
Native database metrics for MySQL, PostgreSQL and MariaDB engine, DB instance performance counters and complete Aurora DB support to help you get the entire picture.
DynamoDB
Monitor key performance metrics detailing usage and performance for DynamoDB tables, Global Secondary indexes (GSIs), Global tables, and DynamoDB streams.
ElastiCache
Monitor your Redis and Memcached compliant ElastiCache clusters, identify changing usage patterns and make informed decisions on scaling and optimizing performance.
Redshift
Monitor and alert on system metrics like CPU usage, DB connections and more for your data warehouse cluster and compute nodes to optimize performance.
Neptune
Gather and analyze important performance metrics like freeable memory, and engine uptime for your Neptune DB clusters.
Lightsail Database
Keep track of health metrics for your managed databases to maintain the reliability of your applications.
Database Migration Service
Migrate your data in databases efficiently by tracking the DMS replication tasks and replication instances.
Elastic Load Balancing
Full monitoring support for all three types of load balancers – Classic, Application, and Network to help you troubleshoot client latency issues and connection errors.
CloudFront
Set up near real-time alerts on operational data, visualize CloudFront usage, and track trends in metrics like data transfer and requests for each web distribution.
Direct Connect
Gain visibility into the virtual interface, optical power, and data transfer rates of the dedicated network connection between your on-premises infrastructure, and business data center in AWS cloud.
VPC-VPN
Monitor activity and connection state for individual VPN endpoints (tunnels) and connection to effectively manage your IPsec connection between your remote network and AWS.
API Gateway
Monitor API calls, latency, integration latency, 400 and, 500 errors for all API stages associated with your deployment. Drill deep into method-level stats to solve problems in API execution and implementation.
Route 53
From tracking DNS queries forwarded by Resolver endpoints to Route 53 health check status gain a comprehensive insight into the Domain Name System (DNS) service.
NAT Gateways
Monitor network throughput interms of bytes and packets and troubleshoot data loss issues for NAT Gateways created in your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).
Lightsail Load Balancing
Gain insight into the load balancers used for your Lightsail environment and built high-availability applications efficiently.
Transit Gateway
Ensure seamless on-premises connectivity from AWS by gaining insights into the number of bytes/packets dropped, and the data transfer rate.
Kinesis
Get complete insight into your real-time streaming data pipeline from source to destination with support for Data Streams, Video Streams, Firehose, and Data Analytics.
CloudSearch
Monitor and alert on domain metrics like successful requests and index utilization to better manage search clusters and make scaling decisions with confidence.
Elasticsearch
Monitor cluster and node-level metrics including CPU utilization, JVM memory pressure, free Storage Space and more to know when to reconfigure your Elasticsearch domains.
Elastic MapReduce
Ensure reliability for your big data workloads by tracking HDFS and Map/Reduce counters like disk capacity utilization, number of map tasks running, number of reduce tasks remaining and more.
Simple Queue Service (SQS)
Configure thresholds for metrics like the number of messages, visible/deleted and age of the oldest message and get notified when your queue stalls or falls behind.
Simple Notification Service (SNS)
Visualize, monitor and alert on usage metrics to understand the behavior of the pub/sub messaging and notification service powering your distributed application.
Simple Email Service (SES)
Complete monitoring for email sending events including bounces and complaints across your SES account to help resolve email deliverability issues faster.
Step Functions
Track state machine metrics like executions started and executions timed out to address run time errors and make changes to your visual workflow with confidence.
Amazon MQ
Monitor resource usage and destination metrics for the message broker instances in the cloud.
Amazon EventBridge
Route real-time alerts from Site24x7 to other AWS services or custom applications with EventBridge.
Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Observe and alert on metrics like allowed and blocked requests across your web access control lists (web ACLs) and rules to optimize your firewall security configurtion.
Key Management Service
Know when to reimport key material. Observe and receive alerts on the metric key material expiration for customer managed CMKs whose origin is external.
Certificate Manager
Check the renewal status for public SSL/TLS certificates deployed on your websites and other cloud resources.
Amazon GuardDuty
Monitors the AWS network for anomalous behavior which can indicate cyberattacks or other unauthorized activities.
Amazon WorkSpaces
Monitor AWS VDI and schedule automations to take remedial actions like start, stop, reboot, or restart the WorkSpaces client.
Powerful features of AWS monitoring tool
AWS monitoring best practices
Deploy and configure cloud resources as per best practices suggested by our AWS monitoring solution. With 150+ recommendation checks, our Guidance Report inspects your AWS environment and finds opportunities to reduce costs, increase fault tolerance, and close security gaps. Besides, Instance Type recommendations help you identify a better instance category based on your instance usage.
Custom dashboards and reports
See how your infrastructure is performing over time. Use our simple drag-and-drop interface and numerous visualization widgets to bring metrics into a single view. Our AWS monitoring service provides out-of-the box reports to give you comprehensive insights into your AWS ecosystem.
Schedule automations
Automatically execute repetitive manual tasks across AWS resources, plus schedule the automation(s) to take place one after the other when an incident occurs. In response to an alert, stop idle RDS instances, restart runaway EC2 instances, invoke Lambda workflows, rebuild a WorkSpace, and many more.
AI-powered insights
With each day the systems that power our apps and the metrics they emit are getting more complex. Identify metric values that don't conform with expected behavior using our machine learning powered anomaly detection and forecasting engine to preempt resource constraints and prevent potential issues.
Inventory dashboard
Get a precise picture of your self-service cloud usage. View a breakdown of monitored resource type count across your AWS account, and see how each resource type has evolved over a particular period. For example, you can compare this week's EC2 numbers with last week's to identify patterns in scaling.
KPI forecasts
Predict the future points of an AWS service performance metric based on historical observations with Site24x7's AI and ML engine. Forecasts are available for over 30 AWS services to help you manage and optimize resources.
Log analytics for AWS monitoring service
Centralize and manage AWS logs from VMs, application services and services including VPC, CloudFront and S3 buckets into a single place. Run interactive analysis using our search query language. Visualize results and configure alerts to monitor the occurrence of a specific condition or term.
AI-powered AWS monitoring service
Site24x7's AWS monitoring is a comprehensive solution that includes pre-configured solutions, workload adaptation, resource usage analysis, performance optimization, and advanced AI capabilities for improved performance and cost-effectiveness.
Track and optimize AWS cost
Understand the five essential AWS cost management strategies to track, analyse, and optimize AWS cloud cost.
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Overview on AWS monitoring
Achieve end-to-end visibility with AWS infrastructure monitoring.
AWS cost management solution
With Site24x7's AWS monitoring platform, you can easily track your organization's cloud spending patterns and optimize costs. The platform allows you to visualize your AWS billing costs, allocate AWS budgets, utilize tags, and create business units for cloud costs. This comprehensive approach helps you to stay on top of your AWS cost optimization journey from a single platform.
Proactive AWS monitoring tools for service providers
In addition to our AWS monitoring capabilities, AWS Managed Service Partners can avail our full-stack AWS monitoring capabilities as a value-added service. This will help customers to optimize their production workloads running in on-premises and multi-cloud platforms. Achieve your remote monitoring needs (RMM) with our flexible monitoring solution available as iOS and Android mobile apps.
Multitenancy
Manage multiple customers’ cloud environments with full data segregation using a single Site24x7 subscription license.
White label
Create a custom monitoring portal for each client using your company name to boost your brand and reputation.
Purely SaaS
With no hardware to buy or systems to maintain, MSPs/CSPs can concentrate on helping their customers navigate the cloud.
Secure
Site24x7 is designed to protect personal and business data, and is AICPA SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certified.
Hear it from our customer
As a team of cloud architects offering solutions on the Amazon Web Services platform, we feel monitoring forms a vital aspect in delivering value to our customers. Up until then, we were using Ansible playbooks to configure CloudWatch Alarms and metrics; then we started using Site24x7, the perfect full stack monitoring partner, that provided the all-important extra layer of functionality above CloudWatch. Robust APIs, alert integrations, strong focus on AWS monitoring and a great relationship with the people at Site24x7 have helped us lower costs for customers and provided us with a satisfying experience.
Looking for a CloudWatch alternative?
If you're tired of paying CloudWatch for additional alarms, dashboards, or custom metrics and looking for an alternative, you're in the right place. Check out our detailed comparison between Site24x7's AWS Monitoring and Amazon CloudWatch.
Overview of AWS monitoring
What is AWS monitoring?
AWS monitoring is the process of tracking and optimizing the performance of your AWS infrastructure. It enables you to gain complete end-to-end visibility of your resources, detect anomalies, perform root cause analysis using logs, ensure high uptime, maintain cloud security, and meet internal and external compliance standards.
What is the importance of having an AWS monitoring tool?
An AWS monitoring tool is essential for tracking and optimizing resource settings in the Amazon cloud. With these tools, you can coordinate, view, and monitor different AWS services from a single interface. Unlike traditional monitoring tools, these tools are specifically designed to monitor distributed environments, ensuring enhanced security and high availability of resources. With an AWS monitoring tool, you can optimize resource allocation and ensure that your AWS environment is operating at peak performance.
What are the best practices for AWS cloud monitoring?
To ensure effective AWS monitoring, there are several best practices that you should consider. These include:
- Conduct drilled-down monitoring of individual resources to identify potential issues and optimize their usage.
- Optimize your AWS resource usage by identifying underutilized resources, consolidating redundant resources, and right sizing your resources.
- Monitor your resources with on-demand scaling to respond to changes in demand quickly and maintain optimal performance.
- Use automations to remediate issues automatically and proactively prevent potential problems.
- Configure alerts for threshold breaches, such as resource utilization exceeding a certain threshold or instances being down, to take appropriate action promptly.
Check out this page for over 150 resource-level AWS best practices provided by Site24x7 AWS monitoring.
How to monitor AWS performance with Site24x7?
Monitoring the performance of your AWS infrastructure is essential to ensure optimal performance and avoid downtime. Here are some steps you can follow to monitor your AWS performance effectively:
- Choose a reliable SaaS-based monitoring tool, such as Site24x7, that provides built-in best practices and advanced features to monitor your AWS environment effectively.
- Use AI-powered anomaly dashboards to identify performance issues quickly and potential bottlenecks in your AWS infrastructure.
- Implement auto-remediation pipelines to automate the resolution of identified issues and reduce the risk of downtime.
- Leverage out-of-the-box features to monitor the performance of individual resources in a single dashboard, which can offer better performance monitoring compared to Amazon CloudWatch..
How to choose the right AWS monitoring tool?
When selecting an AWS monitoring tool, it's important to have a thorough understanding of your AWS infrastructure. Look for a tool that offers AI-powered alerting, an anomaly dashboard, and easy integration with third-party tools like Jira, PagerDuty, Zapier, Slack, or Microsoft Teams. Ensure that the tool allows you to monitor the uptime of all your AWS resources, forecast AWS metrics based on historical observations, and customize infrastructure and inventory dashboards. By considering these factors, you can choose the AWS monitoring tool that best suits your needs.