Best Real-Time Data Streaming Tools for Amazon CloudWatch

Build and share real-time business dashboards without the hassle. Geckoboard integrates with over 80 tools and services to help you pull in your data and get a professional-looking dashboard in front of others in a matter of minutes. Create dashboards directly in your browser with a straightforward, drag-and-drop interface, and bring important numbers, metrics and KPIs out of lifeless reports. When ready, share your dashboard with a link, invite your teammates, schedule email and Slack updates to go out automatically. For maximum visibility, Geckoboard has ‘Send to TV’, allowing you to pair your account with a browser on a large screen or TV, and pick which dashboards you’d like displayed on there. It can even loop through several dashboard on one screen. We’ve got easy-to-follow instructions for how to achieve this in an afternoon using affordable off the shelf hardware.

Effortlessly capture, modify, and transfer streaming data in real time. You can create a delivery stream, choose your desired destination, and begin streaming data with minimal effort. The system automatically provisions and scales necessary compute, memory, and network resources without the need for continuous management. You can convert raw streaming data into various formats such as Apache Parquet and dynamically partition it without the hassle of developing your processing pipelines. Amazon Data Firehose is the most straightforward method to obtain, transform, and dispatch data streams in mere seconds to data lakes, data warehouses, and analytics platforms. To utilize Amazon Data Firehose, simply establish a stream by specifying the source, destination, and any transformations needed. The service continuously processes your data stream, automatically adjusts its scale according to the data volume, and ensures delivery within seconds. You can either choose a source for your data stream or utilize the Firehose Direct PUT API to write data directly. This streamlined approach allows for greater efficiency and flexibility in handling data streams.