We performed a comparison between Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon OpenSearch Service based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Splunk, Wazuh, Datadog and others in Log Management."The solution offers very detailed metrics for their services."
"It is a stable solution...I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is intrusion prevention."
"Most of it's around optimizing utilization, their cloud utilization. They're making sure that they're getting the most out of their in-cloud environments and their instances. Making sure that there's no strange behavior in the environment."
"The initial setup is easy."
"We have found the pricing to be reasonable."
"Monitoring time and ensuring ease in it is the most valuable feature."
"What my company likes best about Amazon CloudWatch is that it's on AWS. My team also likes it for its log feature. As the solution is on AWS, it also has good pricing and resource availability, plus it's what clients choose. My company also chose AWS for Forge ECS, and at the time, there was a need for the log features provided by Amazon CloudWatch, so it's the solution my team went with."
"We retrieve historical data with just a click of a button to move it from cold to hot or warm because it's already stored in the backend storage"
"I think something that can be improved are the alerts and alerting mechanism based on no rejects. We want to have it more flexible and that is one of the key things that is required."
"There is room for improvement in terms of stability."
"Amazon CloudWatch needs improvement. The main thing is we have noticed missing logs."
"The drill-down aspect on the dashboard of the solution needs improvement. We get a very good high-level overview, but when we drill down, it becomes a little less clear. We have given this feedback to AWS as well and hope they will improve this in the future."
"CloudWatch doesn’t monitor disk throughput by default."
"It is hard to configure; it is not a straightforward tool."
"The product's configuration has some challenges. The solution needs to be more user-friendly."
"The product should provide more features."
"It would be beneficial to have some level of customization available in the managed service, tailored to the specific use cases of the end users."
Amazon CloudWatch is ranked 12th in Log Management with 40 reviews while Amazon OpenSearch Service is ranked 47th in Log Management with 1 review. Amazon CloudWatch is rated 8.0, while Amazon OpenSearch Service is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of Amazon CloudWatch writes "Instantaneous response when monitoring logs and KPIs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Amazon OpenSearch Service writes "A managed solution that provides login authentication but has high cost". Amazon CloudWatch is most compared with Zabbix, Datadog, Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver), Dynatrace and Graylog, whereas Amazon OpenSearch Service is most compared with Grafana Loki, Datadog, Zabbix and Security Onion.
See our list of best Log Management vendors.
We monitor all Log Management reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.
