Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring

Enhanced CloudWatch
Monitoring

Consolidated Dashboards, Faster Alerts & OS-Level Visibility

Take AWS CloudWatch to the next level. BigBell seamlessly ingests CloudWatch metrics, combining them with deep OS-level agent data to give you a unified, lightning-fast monitoring experience.

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Enhanced CloudWatch Monitoring Dashboard

Overview

What is AWS CloudWatch Monitoring?

Enhanced CloudWatch monitoring involves using a third-party platform (like BigBell) to ingest, visualize, and alert on metrics from Amazon CloudWatch via the AWS API. It acts as an upgrade over the native AWS console, offering better dashboarding, correlation with non-AWS metrics (like on-premise servers or custom application logs), and more intelligent alerting workflows.

Why AWS CloudWatch Monitoring Matters

While AWS CloudWatch is powerful, its interface can be clunky, building cross-account dashboards is difficult, and it completely lacks visibility into the internal OS (like Memory or per-process CPU) unless you configure complex custom metrics. By integrating CloudWatch into BigBell, you get the best of both worlds: native AWS service metrics (like DynamoDB or SQS) plotted on the same beautiful dashboards as your deep OS-level metrics.

✓Consolidate multiple AWS accounts into a single dashboard
✓Combine AWS metrics with Google Cloud, Azure, and On-Prem data
✓Avoid writing complex CloudWatch Alarms for basic thresholds
✓Gain deep OS memory/process visibility that CloudWatch lacks

Core Use Cases

Perfect for Cloud Architects who are frustrated with the native AWS console experience, and Operations teams who need a 'single pane of glass' that includes both AWS managed services and their own custom application metrics.

Features

Complete CloudWatch Monitoring Capabilities

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Seamless API Integration

Connect your AWS account in minutes via a secure IAM role to automatically import all CloudWatch metrics.

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Unified Dashboards

Plot a CloudWatch RDS metric on the exact same graph as a custom application metric for instant correlation.

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Gap Filling

BigBell's agent fills in the blind spots of CloudWatch, providing instant visibility into OS RAM, Swap, and per-process load.

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Advanced Alert Routing

Route CloudWatch-based alerts through BigBell's advanced incident management system (Slack, SMS, PagerDuty, Escalations).

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

AWS does charge a very small fee for CloudWatch API requests (GetMetricData). BigBell optimizes these API calls to ensure costs remain negligible.

The AWS console is isolated to AWS. If you have servers in another cloud, or on-premise, or want to use advanced third-party alerting integrations, a unified tool like BigBell is required.

Yes! Any custom metric you publish to CloudWatch (like 'OrdersProcessed') will automatically be available for dashboarding and alerting in BigBell.

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