AWS Cloudwatch

Monitoring and observability service providing unified visibility across metrics, logs, and traces. Delivers actionable insights for applications and infrastructure at any scale, helping teams resolve issues faster and improve system reliability.

Trusted by enterprises for full-stack observability across cloud and hybrid environments. Stands out through native integration with AWS workloads, built-in AIOps for root cause analysis, and OpenTelemetry compatibility for flexible instrumentation and vendor-neutral data collection. Widely adopted for serverless, containers, databases, and multi-cloud deployments.

Key features:

• Unified view of metrics, logs, and traces with Application Performance Monitoring
• OpenTelemetry support for flexible instrumentation and open-source tool compatibility
• AIOps with natural language queries and anomaly detection
• CloudWatch Agent for cross-cloud and on-premises telemetry collection
• Integrations with Prometheus, Grafana, Lambda, ECS, and RDS

SREs and platform teams use it for infrastructure monitoring, alerting on thresholds, and building dashboards. Developers instrument applications with the CloudWatch agent or OpenTelemetry and correlate traces with logs for debugging. DevOps teams automate remediation through alarms and EventBridge. Teams running generative AI workloads monitor latency, token usage, and errors across agents and models.