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“A system is never the sum of its parts; it's the product of their interaction.” — Russell Ackoff, Systems Thinker Infrastructure monitoring is an attempt to capture and record the product of interactions between various systems. Infrastructure monitoring comes across as challenging and tedious, often spread across multiple tooling system.

One of the most common things we hear from our users, is how AWS costs keep increasing with CloudWatch often playing a big role. CloudWatch has long been the default observability solution for AWS users. While it’s great for some use-cases, it’s also important to check out and weigh other alternatives which could be better suited for modern observability demands. Let’s examine some areas where modern observability platforms outweigh CloudWatch. Note.