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's best feature stems from its ability to monitor app performance."
"The solution is easy to use."
"What my company likes best about Amazon CloudWatch is that it's on AWS. My team also likes it for its log feature. As the solution is on AWS, it also has good pricing and resource availability, plus it's what clients choose. My company also chose AWS for Forge ECS, and at the time, there was a need for the log features provided by Amazon CloudWatch, so it's the solution my team went with."
"Amazon CloudWatch is a cheap and easy-to-use solution."
"It's a very simple logging system."
"It is a robust analytical tool and it goes beyond mere functionality and extends into the realm of providing comprehensive insights."
"The monitoring features are valuable."
"We have found the pricing to be reasonable."
"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"
"The solution's auto-scaling could be improved."
"Right now, in relation to monitoring services, there are too many services and too many metrics per service."
"The dashboard of Amazon CloudWatch is not very customizable right now."
"I would like to monitor inbound and outbound transfer. I would also like to control the traffic for load balancing."
"The graphical interface has room for improvement. CloudWatch only gives you a breakdown of what's wrong. However, it would be nice if it could automatically remedy the problems it identifies. You should be able to configure it so that when a specific condition arises, it will take a predefined action."
"When customers want to see the CPU or memory utilization there is a cost. This should be free to see the utilization."
"The solution's integration could be easier for laypersons."
"It's not an advanced way of monitoring."
"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) and Dynatrace, whereas Amazon OpenSearch Service is most compared with Grafana Loki and Datadog.
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