We performed a comparison between Amazon CloudWatch and Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring 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 most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is the monitoring and UI."
"I have found the memory metrics and the CPU metrics valuable."
"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."
"We have found the pricing to be reasonable."
"It's a very simple logging system."
"It is a robust analytical tool and it goes beyond mere functionality and extends into the realm of providing comprehensive insights."
"The detection is the most valuable feature."
"It can monitor, get the data, and then report on the data."
"It is a great resource for us because we have so many different data sources and to be able to aggregate that and put it through a concise dashboard or an alert really helps."
"The alerts are the most valuable feature."
"It is very easy to monitor multiple cloud environments. It's like a single pane of glass for us. We can use it to monitor our on-prem and both of our cloud environments as opposed to having different tools for each environment. It makes it all come together in one tool."
"The data collection from our VMs, containers, databases, and backend components is valuable."
"The solution's basic visibility is one of its most valuable features. So, it is a solution that is easy to use...The solution's initial setup process was straightforward."
"The most valuable thing that we have seen within our group is the ability to ingest all this raw data and have it organized in a certain way so that different groups can get effective alerting from this massive amount of raw data that is out there."
"Great monitoring of network devices."
"The product should provide more features."
"When customers want to see the CPU or memory utilization there is a cost. This should be free to see the utilization."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing, because they have a premium version, but it's not really a premium version. It's just an enhanced monitoring version, and it can be a bit expensive depending on your usage."
"It would be beneficial for CloudWatch to provide an API interface and some kind of custom configuration."
"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 dashboard of Amazon CloudWatch is not very customizable right now."
"The graphical interface has room for improvement. CloudWatch only gives you a breakdown of what's wrong. However, it would be nice if it could automatically remedy the problems it identifies. You should be able to configure it so that when a specific condition arises, it will take a predefined action."
"The solution's auto-scaling could be improved."
"We still use Splunk Enterprise licensing. A lot of the newer features go into Splunk Cloud before Enterprise. We're not looking to switch our licensing over, so we're falling behind on the newer features."
"The cost needs to be re-examined. It's extremely expensive to run. It's also expensive to expand. That's the number one complaint all of my customers have when it comes to Splunk. It's way too expensive compared to other solutions."
"In the next release, I would like to see more integration with other solutions."
"I would like to see an improvement and some innovation in the customer interface."
"The deployment can be quite complex."
"A lot of customers had a hard time effectively searching within the data in Splunk. There is a learning curve from searches to indexes and using all the macros that we have created. It is a little difficult for somebody who has not used it quite a bit and does not have a lot of practice with it, but the AI features that we have been hearing about through Splunk will make it a lot easier for us to use human language to search this data. That is big. That is pretty powerful, and that will help a lot with our customers."
"The price has room for improvement."
"Splunk could be better integrated with configuration manager solutions so we can automatically resolve issues without human interference."
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Amazon CloudWatch is ranked 9th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 40 reviews while Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is ranked 14th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 24 reviews. Amazon CloudWatch is rated 8.0, while Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Amazon CloudWatch writes "Instantaneous response when monitoring logs and KPIs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring writes "Helps to ingest a massive amount of raw data and use it effectively". Amazon CloudWatch is most compared with Zabbix, Datadog, Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver), Dynatrace and New Relic, whereas Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is most compared with ServiceNow IT Operations Management, Nagios XI, Cisco Intersight, ITRS Geneos and Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence). See our Amazon CloudWatch vs. Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring report.
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