We performed a comparison between Amazon CloudWatch and BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The detection is the most valuable feature."
"CloudWatch immediately hooks up and connects to the KPIs and all the metrics."
"The tool's UI is good. One can scroll through the logs very easily."
"We can create events and alerts. We use the information to dive down into the infrastructure performance."
"What I found most valuable in Amazon CloudWatch is that it gives you detailed information, which I found helpful because it can even provide you with data for the past one minute, which is quite granular. That was what helped me most in terms of finding the root causes. Task automation is another valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch."
"The alarms are one thing I love about AWS CloudWatch. It has alerts that notify us when resource use is approaching the limit."
"Our team finds it overall quite useful."
"We have found the pricing to be reasonable."
"Automates Java EE Application Deployment from an SCM system."
"Integrates role-based access control with pre-configured policies for CIS, DISA, HIPAA, PCI, SOX, NIST, and SCAP documentation and remediation."
"By allowing end users to request their own services, the request process for systems is much quicker and more accurate."
"CLM has a multi-cloud portal because they have the resources to implement in various environments in various ports."
"Assesses change impact or completes an audit using multiple dashboard views."
"Supports unattended installs and image-based, script-based, or template-based provisioning."
"You can tie together your public and private cloud infrastructure into a "single pane of glass"."
"There is room for improvement in terms of stability."
"Some of our customers want to use Kubernetes to monitor their CICD flow but Amazon CloudWatch does not support it. We need to use another solution, such as Datadog or Dynatrace has the needed capability."
"It is hard to configure; it is not a straightforward tool."
"There could be further enhancements through CloudWatch's partnerships."
"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."
"The solution's integration could be easier for laypersons."
"Right now, in relation to monitoring services, there are too many services and too many metrics per service."
"CloudWatch's scalability could be improved."
"The installation and configuration can be tricky due to it being built on Remedy."
"Needs integrations with other providers to provide a custom public cloud environment."
"One of the major problems is that support is not so good."
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Amazon CloudWatch is ranked 9th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 40 reviews while BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management is ranked 43rd in Cloud Monitoring Software. Amazon CloudWatch is rated 8.0, while BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Amazon CloudWatch writes "Instantaneous response when monitoring logs and KPIs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management writes "Automates Java EE Application Deployment from an SCM system". Amazon CloudWatch is most compared with Zabbix, Datadog, Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver), Dynatrace and SolarWinds NPM, whereas BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management is most compared with CloudBolt. See our Amazon CloudWatch vs. BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management report.
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