Tracks the health and performance of EC2 instances, auto-scaling groups, EBS volumes, and more.
Monitors the performance of web applications, services, and transactions running on AWS.
Keeps tabs on S3 storage usage, database performance (e.g., RDS and DynamoDB), and network traffic.
Collects and analyzes logs from AWS services, like CloudWatch Logs, CloudTrail, and custom apps, to support debugging, auditing, and security.
Tracks AWS spending across services, detects cost spikes, and helps optimize usage to stay within budget.
Monitors AWS Lambda functions by tracking invocation counts, durations, errors, and cold starts to ensure smooth execution.
AWS monitoring works by continuously collecting, analyzing, and visualizing data from your AWS environment to help you ensure performance, availability, and security. Here's how it typically works:
AWS services generate performance and usage data, including information like CPU usage, network traffic, error logs, and billing info. This data is collected through native tools like Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, and X-Ray, or third-party AWS monitoring tools like Site24x7.
The data is visualized through graphs, charts, and custom dashboards that show performance trends, service health, and anomalies at a glance.
Monitoring tools pull this data into a centralized platform where it's organized by service, region, or resource type.
Thresholds can be set on key metrics (e.g., CPU > 80%, database latency > 200ms), triggering alerts via email, SMS, Slack, or integrations like PagerDuty.
Monitoring tools can also automate remediation—like restarting instances, scaling services, or running Lambda functions when thresholds are breached.
Monitoring AWS infrastructure is essential, but it comes with its own set of challenges:
AWS offers hundreds of services, making it complex to monitor all interdependencies.
CloudWatch alone can generate thousands of metrics—filtering the noise to find what matters is tricky.
Native tools offer siloed views—it's tough to get a unified picture of hybrid or multi-cloud setups.
Without proper configuration, alerts can overwhelm your team, making it hard to identify critical issues.
Setting up dashboards, alerts, and logs can be time-consuming if done from scratch.
Auto-scaling, short-lived containers, and serverless functions make it hard to track constantly changing resources in real time.
Using a dedicated AWS monitoring tool provides several benefits:
When selecting an AWS monitoring tool, consider the following factors:
Site24x7 is a powerful cloud-native monitoring platform that gives you deep visibility into your AWS environment—alongside your entire IT infrastructure.
Monitor over 80 AWS services, including EC2, RDS, Lambda, ELB, DynamoDB, and S3.
View cloud, on-premises, and hybrid infrastructure metrics in one place.
Detect anomalies and forecast resource needs, along with over 150 best practice recommendations and a robust automation framework.
Cut through noise with intelligent alerting based on thresholds, dependencies, and baselines.
Connect easily with Slack, PagerDuty, ServiceNow, and other tools.