We performed a comparison between Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon OpenSearch Service based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Splunk, Wazuh, Datadog and others in Log Management."Amazon CloudWatch is a cheap and easy-to-use solution."
"The solution effectively monitors golden signals like CPU, page requests, and queues."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is intrusion prevention."
"It offers direct integrations with various storage providers, making it convenient to push logs from CloudWatch to these external platforms."
"The monitoring features are 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."
"Scheduling is a valuable feature."
"The alarms are one thing I love about AWS CloudWatch. It has alerts that notify us when resource use is approaching the limit."
"We retrieve historical data with just a click of a button to move it from cold to hot or warm because it's already stored in the backend storage"
"Improvement of SSSD logs would be beneficial."
"The solution's auto-scaling could be improved."
"The monitoring part and GUI are areas in Amazon CloudWatch that have shortcomings currently and can be considered for improvements in the future."
"There's a learning curve with Amazon CloudWatch since we have to learn to write the queries to extract the keys and logs."
"What would make Amazon CloudWatch better is if it includes more on-site checks, particularly status checks on the CPU, network input/output, etc. It would also be helpful if there's built-in swap space, disk, and memory monitoring in Amazon CloudWatch because, at the moment, my team has to configure it manually through a shell script."
"CloudWatch's scalability could be improved."
"When customers want to see the CPU or memory utilization there is a cost. This should be free to see the utilization."
"Incorporating a straightforward method or a plug-and-play solution for integrating these databases with our systems, facilitating smooth data transfer, and enabling the creation of dashboards for monitoring and analysis would be beneficial."
"It would be beneficial to have some level of customization available in the managed service, tailored to the specific use cases of the end users."
Amazon CloudWatch is ranked 12th in Log Management with 40 reviews while Amazon OpenSearch Service is ranked 46th in Log Management with 1 review. Amazon CloudWatch is rated 8.0, while Amazon OpenSearch Service is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of Amazon CloudWatch writes "Instantaneous response when monitoring logs and KPIs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Amazon OpenSearch Service writes "A managed solution that provides login authentication but has high cost". Amazon CloudWatch is most compared with Zabbix, Datadog, Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver), Dynatrace and Graylog, whereas Amazon OpenSearch Service is most compared with Grafana Loki, Datadog, Zabbix and Security Onion.
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