We performed a comparison between Amazon CloudWatch and Wazuh based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Amazon CloudWatch users liked the solution’s simplicity, intuitive interface, and ability to handle large workloads. Users also praised CloudWatch’s comprehensive monitoring and alerts. Wazuh stands out for its effortless integration, excellent log monitoring capabilities, and ELK-based investigation. Some reviews mentioned that Amazon CloudWatch could improve performance and dashboard visualization through. Others noted that the solution lacked compatibility with some databases. Wazuh needs improvements in event source coverage, threat intelligence integration, and real-time monitoring of Unix systems.
Service and Support: Customers generally have positive opinions about Amazon's customer service. They commended the support team for its availability and timely issue resolution. Wazuh's customer service is generally deemed satisfactory, and many customers noted that they could easily find answers from community forums.
Ease of Deployment: Amazon CloudWatch is generally described as easy to set up. Some users said that Wazuh’s setup is easy and fast, while others perceived it as complicated and said it required a significant amount of time.
Pricing: Amazon CloudWatch offers a flexible pricing structure based on usage and processing without any separate licensing cost. Some users said that scaling up can be costly due to the need for additional storage space. Wazuh is a cost-effective option as it is open-source and completely free to acquire.
ROI: Amazon CloudWatch offers a return on investment by minimizing the need for manual monitoring. Wazuh's MSP program and partnerships offer opportunities to generate revenue from the platform.
"Monitoring time and ensuring ease in it is the most valuable feature."
"Amazon CloudWatch is a cheap and easy-to-use solution."
"The solution effectively monitors golden signals like CPU, page requests, and queues."
"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 solution gives us very good real-time data."
"The product helps us collect and store various metrics to set test alarms."
"We can create events and alerts. We use the information to dive down into the infrastructure performance."
"It's a very simple logging system."
"The most valuable features are the modules and metrics."
"It has efficient SCA capabilities."
"I like that the solution is on top of the Kubernetes stack."
"The tool is stable."
"Wazuh has very flexible and robust features."
"It's very easy to integrate Wazuh with other environments, cloud applications, and on-prem applications. So, the advantage is that it's easy to implement and integrate with other solutions."
"Wazuh's most beneficial features for our security needs are flexibility, built-in rules, integration capabilities, and documentation."
"The log monitoring and analysis tools are great in addition to SIEM file activity monitoring."
"This product lacks some features: real-time data stream monitoring, application performance monitoring, mobile app monitoring, and live dashboards. Its workflows also need improvement."
"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."
"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."
"Amazon CloudWatch's pricing needs improvement."
"There's a learning curve with Amazon CloudWatch since we have to learn to write the queries to extract the keys and logs."
"It is hard to configure; it is not a straightforward tool."
"The solution's pricing is a bit higher."
"Right now, in relation to monitoring services, there are too many services and too many metrics per service."
"Wazuh is missing many things that a typical SIEM should have."
"They need to go towards integrating with more cloud applications and not just OS like Windows and Linux."
"There's not much I like about Wazuh. Other products I've used were a lot more functional and user friendly. They came with reports and use cases out of the box. We need to configure Wazuh's alerts and monitoring capabilities manually. It'd be nice if we could select from templates and presets for use cases already built and coded."
"Wazuh doesn't cover sources of events as well as Splunk. You can integrate Splunk with many sources of events, but it's a painful process to take care of some sources of events with Wazuh."
"One area where Wazuh could use some improvement is in its reporting mechanism, especially for high-level management like CSOs and CEOs."
"The biggest part that's missing is threat intelligence. It isn't inbuilt, and if a sudden incident occurs, we don't get that feedback inside the SIEM tool. That's a big gap, I see. It would be better if we could get the threat intelligence feeds integrated with the SIEM tools. That would help us push value solutions to the clients in a big way."
"Alerts should be specific rather than repeatedly triggered by integrating multiple factors. This issue needs improvement to create a more efficient alert system."
"The tool does not provide CTI to monitor darknet."
Amazon CloudWatch is ranked 12th in Log Management with 40 reviews while Wazuh is ranked 2nd in Log Management with 38 reviews. Amazon CloudWatch is rated 8.0, while Wazuh is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Amazon CloudWatch writes "Instantaneous response when monitoring logs and KPIs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Wazuh writes "It integrates seamlessly with AWS cloud-native services". Amazon CloudWatch is most compared with Zabbix, Datadog, Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver), Dynatrace and Nagios XI, whereas Wazuh is most compared with Elastic Security, Security Onion, AlienVault OSSIM, Splunk Enterprise Security and Graylog. See our Amazon CloudWatch vs. Wazuh report.
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