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.
"The most valuable features of Amazon CloudWatch are metrics, dashboards, alarms, logs, events, logs insight, and application insights."
"The solution gives us very good real-time data."
"Monitoring time and ensuring ease in it is the most valuable feature."
"The product can be integrated with AWS very easily."
"Scheduling is a valuable feature."
"CloudWatch immediately hooks up and connects to the KPIs and all the metrics."
"It is a stable solution...I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"The detection is the most valuable feature."
"Wazuh has very flexible and robust features."
"It is excellent in terms of visualization and indexing services, making it a powerful tool for malware detection."
"Good for monitoring, active response, and for vulnerabilities."
"We use it to find any aberration in our endpoint devices. For example, if someone installs a game on their company laptop, Wazuh will detect it and inform us of the unauthorized software or unintended use of the devices provided by the company."
"The most valuable features are the modules and metrics."
"The deployment is easy and they provide very good documentation."
"The product’s interface is intuitive."
"The most valuable feature of Wazuh is the ELK for doing an investigation."
"Better reporting is always something needed. That could be an answer to just about anything. But you always want better reporting, better dashboards, things that are just more dynamic and more accessible."
"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."
"Amazon CloudWatch needs improvement. The main thing is we have noticed missing logs."
"When customers want to see the CPU or memory utilization there is a cost. This should be free to see the utilization."
"The product’s documentation must be improved."
"The solution should provide human-readable metrics."
"The product's configuration has some challenges. The solution needs to be more user-friendly."
"I do not know whether or not CloudWatch can be integrated with on-prem services."
"Scalability is a challenge because it is distributed architecture and it uses Elastic DB. Their Elastic DB doesn't allow open source waste application."
"I think that the next release should be more suitable for large enterprises, because currently they are not because large companies do not rely on open source solutions."
"The computing resources are consuming and do not make sense."
"It would be better if they had a vulnerability assessment plug-in like the one AlienVault has. In the next release, I would like to have an app with an alerting mechanism."
"One area where Wazuh could use some improvement is in its reporting mechanism, especially for high-level management like CSOs and CEOs."
"A more structured approach, perhaps with modular UI components, to facilitate easier integration and navigation within the Wazuh platform for custom integrations would be beneficial."
"I have yet to find the same capability in Wazuh to get logs from different sources into the system"
"Since it's an open-source tool, scalability is the main issue."
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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