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May 2022

Going Beyond CloudWatch: 5 Steps to Better Log Analytics & Analysis

CloudWatch is great – if you require very basic logging and monitoring for the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud, at least. However, the reality is that most teams need more than basic logging and monitoring. They may also need to perform log analytics on data sources from outside AWS, which CloudWatch doesn’t support. That’s why, although CloudWatch may be one tool in your log analytics strategy, it probably should not be the only one.