For alerting based on monitored CPU, RAM etc., Amazon CloudWatch and Stackdriver are part of your native cloud monitoring services.

Some of the features offered by Amazon CloudWatch are:

• Basic Monitoring for Amazon EC2 instances: ten pre-selected metrics at five-minute frequency, free of charge.
• Detailed Monitoring for Amazon EC2 instances: seven pre-selected metrics at one-minute frequency, for an additional charge.
• Amazon EBS volumes: eight pre-selected metrics at five-minute frequency, free of charge.

GCP Stackdriver provides the following key features:

• Monitoring – at App and Infrastructure Level 
• Logging  – At Infra and App Level
• Diagnostics – at app and Infrastructure level

Metrics that Stackdriver provides

Metrics for Google Cloud Platform services:

• GCP metrics, for Google Cloud Platform services such as Compute Engine and BigQuery.

• Kubernetes metrics, for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).

• Istio metrics, for Istio on GKE.

• Anthos metrics, for GKE On-Prem.

Metrics for Stackdriver agents, Amazon Web Services, open-source, and third-party applications:

• Agent metrics, for VM instances running the Stackdriver agents.

• AWS metrics, for Amazon Web Services such as Amazon Redshift and Amazon CloudFront.

• External metrics, for open-source and third-party applications.

Summary

The key point is that Stackdriver can be used for both AWS and GCP app layer monitoring (with the appropriate agents installed). It encompasses JVM , LAMP, .NET and several other runtimes.

In addition, the logs from stackdriver can be sent straight to bigquery for analytics.

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