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An Overview of Amazon CloudWatch and OpsGenie — DevOps Tools

Let’s first understand what is DevOps before we move ahead with the overview of Tools. Building off the earlier brief description, here is how Amazon defines DevOps: “DevOps is the combination of cultural philosophies, practices, and tools that increases an organization’s ability to deliver applications and services at high velocity: evolving and improving products at a faster pace than organizations using traditional software development and infrastructure management processes.”

Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and observability service built for DevOps engineers, developers, site reliability engineers (SREs), and IT managers.

The Dashboard feature is very useful, as it can give you instant insight into the status of your infrastructure.

OpsGenie is an incident management service that integrates with your monitoring tool to provide you with around-the-clock notifications on the status of your infrastructure.