Monthly cost
$0+ / mo
Free tier; usage-based
Popularity
5/5
LLM knowledge
5/5
Difficulty
Medium
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What AWS CloudWatch is good at
Strengths
- +Native to AWS
- +Pay per use
- +Alarms and dashboards
Tradeoffs
- −Clunky UI
- −Not as polished as Datadog
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You're working with AWS CloudWatch. AWS-native logs and metrics. Best practices: - Lean on: native to aws - Lean on: pay per use - Lean on: alarms and dashboards Things to watch for: - Watch out for: clunky ui - Watch out for: not as polished as datadog General guidance: - Canonical docs: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch — check here before inventing APIs. - Keep secrets in environment variables, never commit them. - Write TypeScript where the ecosystem supports it; add types to every exported function. - Add tests for the critical paths before declaring the task done. - Read-the-docs is usually faster than guessing — cite the docs page in code comments when you apply a non-obvious pattern.
Beginner's guide to AWS CloudWatch
In one line: AWS's built-in logs, metrics, and alarms.
Every AWS service pipes logs and metrics to CloudWatch. You can set alarms (e.g. 'email me if CPU > 80%').
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