We performed a comparison between Amazon CloudWatch and Elastic Observability based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Log Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is collecting the logs from Lambda."
"Amazon CloudWatch is a cheap and easy-to-use solution."
"Every time we get an alarm or have an incident, CloudWatch is always there. We use it not only for resources we've spun up in the cloud, but also for some of our on-premises resources."
"The monitoring features are valuable."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is its ease of use and logs. You do not have to go to each separate system to see the logs, such as Syslog and they are located in one dashboard GUI."
"It offers direct integrations with various storage providers, making it convenient to push logs from CloudWatch to these external platforms."
"The solution effectively monitors golden signals like CPU, page requests, and queues."
"The alarms are one thing I love about AWS CloudWatch. It has alerts that notify us when resource use is approaching the limit."
"The solution has been stable in our usage."
"The most valuable feature of Elastic Observability is the text search."
"It's easy to deploy, and it's very flexible."
"The tool's most valuable feature is centralized logging. Elastic Common Search helps us to search for the logs across the organization."
"The product has connectors to many services."
"The solution allows us to dig deep into data."
"It is a powerful tool that allows users to collect and transform logs as needed, enabling flexible visualization and analysis."
"We can view and connect different sources to the dashboard using it."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in terms of stability."
"The technical support must be improved."
"Right now, in relation to monitoring services, there are too many services and too many metrics per service."
"I would like to monitor inbound and outbound transfer. I would also like to control the traffic for load balancing."
"Amazon CloudWatch's pricing needs improvement."
"The product’s documentation must be improved."
"There could be further enhancements through CloudWatch's partnerships."
"The tool's scalability involves a more complex implementation process. It requires careful calculations to determine the number of nodes needed, the specifications of each node, and the configuration of hot, warm, and cold zones for data storage. Additionally, managing log retention policies adds further complexity. The solution's pricing also needs to be cheaper."
"The cost must be made more transparent."
"In the future, Elastic APM needs a portfolio iTool. They can provide an easy way to develop the custom UI for Kibana."
"The solution would be better if it was capable of more automation, especially in a monitoring capacity or for the response to abnormalities."
"If we had some pre-defined templates for observability that we could start using right away after deploying it – instead of having to build or to change some of the dashboards – that would be helpful."
"The interface could be improved."
"Elastic APM's visualization is not that great compared to other tools. It's number of metrics is very low."
"They need more skills in the market. There are not enough skills in the market. It is not pervasive enough on the market, in my opinion. In other words, there isn't a big enough user base."
Amazon CloudWatch is ranked 12th in Log Management with 40 reviews while Elastic Observability is ranked 14th in Log Management with 22 reviews. Amazon CloudWatch is rated 8.0, while Elastic Observability 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 Elastic Observability writes "The user interface framework lets us do custom development when needed. ". Amazon CloudWatch is most compared with Zabbix, Datadog, Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver), Dynatrace and IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM), whereas Elastic Observability is most compared with Dynatrace, New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry and AppDynamics. See our Amazon CloudWatch vs. Elastic Observability report.
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