We performed a comparison between Amazon CloudWatch and Instana 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."
"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 detection is the most valuable feature."
"We can create events and alerts. We use the information to dive down into the infrastructure performance."
"We use Amazon CloudWatch for logging."
"Our team finds it overall quite useful."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is collecting the logs from Lambda."
"You can enable alarms and metrics, and it has robust integration with AWS services. You can also trigger events. For example, if the CPU utilization is above 80%, it can launch a new instance for you."
"The product's initial setup is easy."
"The product is easy to deploy."
"I do not know whether or not CloudWatch can be integrated with on-prem services."
"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 and the UI could improve in Amazon CloudWatch. Additionally, they should focus on visibility inside the servers with AI and machine learning integrations. This would allow users who are using the solution to see what is happening within the system better."
"The solution could benefit from a price decrease."
"For monitoring applications or for APM, CloudWatch has some limitations. You cannot monitor application performance from CloudWatch, and you have to go for a third-party tool."
"The monitoring part and GUI are areas in Amazon CloudWatch that have shortcomings currently and can be considered for improvements in the future."
"This product lacks some features: real-time data stream monitoring, application performance monitoring, mobile app monitoring, and live dashboards. Its workflows also need improvement."
"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."
"Instana Infrastructure Monitoring needs to support monitoring of the .NET framework since it is one of the areas where the solution currently has shortcomings."
"The product’s scalability is an area with certain limitations, making it an area where improvements are required."
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Amazon CloudWatch is ranked 9th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 40 reviews while Instana Infrastructure Monitoring is ranked 31st in Cloud Monitoring Software with 2 reviews. Amazon CloudWatch is rated 8.0, while Instana Infrastructure Monitoring is rated 9.6. The top reviewer of Amazon CloudWatch writes "Instantaneous response when monitoring logs and KPIs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Instana Infrastructure Monitoring writes "Has the capability to automatically integrate with a large number of products". Amazon CloudWatch is most compared with Zabbix, Datadog, Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver), Dynatrace and Wazuh, whereas Instana Infrastructure Monitoring is most compared with IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM), Zabbix, Opsview, Checkmk and Splunk APM. See our Amazon CloudWatch vs. Instana Infrastructure Monitoring report.
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