Containerizing your apps 3 - ELK vs Amazon Cloudwatch vs Google Stackdriver

	Pros	Cons
ELK	Good for non cloud apps. AWS and GCP has their own log monitoring system. Comes with complete search engine called Elasticsearch Near real time processing Complete dashboards	Not good for cloud native apps ( Apps in AWS , GCP ) Required configuration of 3 components. ( Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana dashboard ) Elasticseach required heavy memory
AWS CloudWatch	Can monitor infrastructure Supports alerting Supports Dashboards CloudWatch Supports many matrices Can monitor resource utilization Flirtations works very fast Near real time processing Can export data to S3 buckets	Dashboard configuration takes time across multiple filtration Not supports app level debugging as of 2020
Google Stackdriver	Support app level debugging without changing the app or adding new log lines Can monitor infrastructure Support wide range of matrices Easy configurations Easy dashboards Supports AWS VMs	Better than ELK and same as AWS CloudWatch. Excludes app level dubbing feature which is not available in AWS as of 2020