From the course: AWS Certified Database – Specialty (DBS-C01) Cert Prep: 4 Monitoring and Troubleshooting

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Using third-party monitoring tools

Using third-party monitoring tools

- What do you do if you have looked at CloudWatch and CloudTrail and you've determined that maybe they just don't give you exactly what you want? Maybe you want even more detailed insights? Different dashboards, custom developed dashboards, and so forth? Then you might want to look at some third party tools. Here's the thing to keep in mind, if you're already using AWS, you probably know roughly what your bill is, how much you spend on AWS every month or every year. I know my bill because I run a small business myself. The way I use AWS, my bill is under $100 every month, it's not a really big bill. So I thought it might be interesting to take a look at some people that use AWS in a big way and then talk about some of the third-party tools that could be used when you use AWS in a big way to monitor it well. So let's look at some people that use it in a big way. Here, we see by simply searching for big companies that…

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