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 detection is the most valuable feature."
"It is a robust analytical tool and it goes beyond mere functionality and extends into the realm of providing comprehensive insights."
"The solution offers very detailed metrics for their services."
"We have found the pricing to be reasonable."
"We use Amazon CloudWatch for logging."
"The alarms are one thing I love about AWS CloudWatch. It has alerts that notify us when resource use is approaching the limit."
"The solution effectively monitors golden signals like CPU, page requests, and queues."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is reliability."
"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."
"It can monitor, get the data, and then report on the data."
"The data collection from our VMs, containers, databases, and backend components is valuable."
"The tool is efficient in collecting, monitoring and evaluating logs."
"The ability to create custom dashboards is one of the best features and that's typically why most people deploy Splunk. Users can create dashboards for just about anything."
"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."
"I find the monitoring console very helpful. With one click, I can see how we are performing, and at the same time, I can see what data is flowing."
"It's a very easy-to-use solution."
"The monitoring part and GUI are areas in Amazon CloudWatch that have shortcomings currently and can be considered for improvements in the future."
"The solution's pricing is a bit higher."
"The solution should provide human-readable metrics."
"This product lacks some features: real-time data stream monitoring, application performance monitoring, mobile app monitoring, and live dashboards. Its workflows also need improvement."
"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."
"I would like to monitor inbound and outbound transfer. I would also like to control the traffic for load balancing."
"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."
"It's not an advanced way of monitoring."
"The price has room for improvement."
"The product collects a lot of data but it does not assure that it collects all of it."
"In the next release, I would like to see more integration with other solutions."
"It's a bit difficult to use. It takes some time to get into it and to get it to do what you would like it to do. It is not straightforward to use it."
"They do not have all the features that I expect right now."
"The solution should have more sensors regarding fiber intelligence for security measures."
"The clustering part of indexes can be more refined."
"The implementation can be more user-friendly."
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Amazon CloudWatch is ranked 9th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 40 reviews while Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is ranked 13th 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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