[rpeden]

I haven't used it personally, but I know a couple of people who have had some success using Stackdriver: https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/

For the individual services, there are monitoring tools like S3Stat[1], created by HN user jasonkester. It does a great job and is affordable, but I realize that individual tools like this don't necessarily help with aggregating everything into a single view.

I've been thinking about creating a desktop app that helps with this. When I'm already paying monthly for a bunch of services, I often want to avoid a bunch of extra monthly fees for monitoring them all. The way I envision it, the app would come with plugins for monitoring common services, and make it easy to create new plugins for monitoring any cloud or local service you might have. Do you think something like this would be useful, or just overkill for most people?

[1] https://www.s3stat.com/home.aspx

[tsestrich]

What you described actually sounds really useful, but probably not for the hobbyist. For people with just hobby projects, yeah, it's probably overkill.

I definitely agree, though. My intent is to monitor for if/when we get close to entering a new billing tier, see any obvious abnormalities in usage, etc. Thanks for the recommendations, I'll check them out!