Monitoring
15 articles on Monitoring — AWS security, compliance, and account management from the Vigilare team.
The Freelance DevOps Toolkit: Essential AWS Monitoring for Consultants
You're managing AWS infrastructure for multiple clients. Here's the toolkit that keeps every account safe without eating into your billable hours — from monitoring to access management to client reporting.
Viktor B. · May 15, 2026 · 8 min read
Monitoring Multiple AWS Accounts on a Budget
You manage 3-5 AWS accounts — production, staging, maybe a client project. Enterprise multi-account monitoring costs thousands. Here's how to get unified visibility for under $100/month.
Viktor B. · April 10, 2026 · 8 min read
AWS Trusted Advisor: Automating Best Practice Monitoring and Alerts
How to use AWS Trusted Advisor programmatically — automating checks for security, cost, fault tolerance, and performance, and integrating findings into your monitoring workflow.
Viktor B. · February 6, 2026 · 8 min read
AWS Account Health Monitoring: Staying Ahead of Service Disruptions
Use AWS Health Dashboard, Health API, and EventBridge to get early warnings about service degradations, maintenance events, and operational issues affecting your AWS accounts.
Viktor B. · January 25, 2026 · 8 min read
Vigilare vs Datadog for AWS Monitoring: Different Tools, Different Jobs
Datadog is an observability platform. Vigilare is an AWS account health and security monitoring platform. Understanding the distinction — and where they complement each other — helps teams make the right tooling decisions.
Viktor B. · January 16, 2026 · 8 min read
Free AWS Monitoring Tools: What They Cover and Where They Stop
AWS offers a surprising amount of monitoring for free. Here's exactly what the free tier covers across CloudWatch, GuardDuty, Cost Anomaly Detection, and more — and the gaps that free tools leave open.
Viktor B. · January 16, 2026 · 9 min read
AWS Security Tools Compared: GuardDuty, Security Hub, Config, and More
AWS offers many overlapping security services — GuardDuty, Security Hub, Config, Inspector, Macie, Detective. Understanding what each does, what it doesn't do, and how they work together helps you build a monitoring stack without gaps or redundancy.
Viktor B. · January 14, 2026 · 10 min read
CloudWatch vs Third-Party Monitoring: When to Upgrade
CloudWatch is free and built-in, but it has real limitations. Here's a framework for deciding when CloudWatch is enough and when it's time to invest in third-party monitoring — without overspending.
Vigilare Engineering · December 26, 2025 · 10 min read
AWS Serverless Monitoring: Observability for Lambda-Centric Architectures
Serverless architectures distribute execution across many short-lived function invocations, making traditional monitoring approaches insufficient. This guide covers the metrics, tracing, and alerting patterns that make Lambda-based systems observable.
Vigilare Engineering · December 25, 2025 · 8 min read
AWS VPC Flow Logs: Configuration, Storage, and Analysis
VPC Flow Logs are the primary data source for network security analysis in AWS. Getting the configuration right — format, destination, aggregation interval — determines both what you can detect and what you pay for storage.
Vigilare Engineering · December 20, 2025 · 8 min read
White-Label AWS Monitoring for MSPs: Presenting Vigilare Under Your Brand
Clients expect MSP services to feel integrated, not like a collection of vendor portals. White-label monitoring presents your AWS monitoring capability under your own brand while delivering the insights clients need to trust their cloud environment.
Viktor B. · December 13, 2025 · 7 min read
Monitoring Client AWS Accounts: Architecture and Alerting for MSPs
Client AWS monitoring requires centralized aggregation, per-client isolation, and alerting that's actionable at scale. This guide covers the architecture that makes it practical to monitor dozens of client accounts from a single operations center.
Vigilare Engineering · December 12, 2025 · 8 min read
Vigilare vs AWS-Native Tools: What You Get That CloudWatch Doesn't Give You
CloudWatch, Cost Explorer, GuardDuty, Config — AWS gives you the pieces. But nobody gives you the picture. Here's what Vigilare adds on top of AWS native tools and why it matters for small teams.
Viktor B. · November 28, 2025 · 9 min read
AWS Service Quotas Monitoring: Preventing Limit-Induced Outages
Service quota limits cause silent application failures and outages that look like bugs but are actually infrastructure ceilings. This guide covers how to monitor quota utilization across services, set up proactive alerts, and request increases before you hit limits in production.
Vigilare Engineering · November 27, 2025 · 8 min read
Best AWS Monitoring Tools for Startups in 2026
You don't need an enterprise monitoring stack to keep your AWS account safe. Here are the best monitoring tools for startups — ranked by what actually matters when you're a small team on a budget.
Viktor B. · November 14, 2025 · 10 min read