We performed a comparison between Amazon CloudWatch and BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Zabbix, New Relic and others in Cloud Monitoring Software."The most valuable features of Amazon CloudWatch are metrics, dashboards, alarms, logs, events, logs insight, and application insights."
"We have found the pricing to be reasonable."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is collecting the logs from Lambda."
"Most of it's around optimizing utilization, their cloud utilization. They're making sure that they're getting the most out of their in-cloud environments and their instances. Making sure that there's no strange behavior in the environment."
"Setting up this product was easy. I found data analytics as its most valuable feature."
"Our team finds it overall quite useful."
"The solution effectively monitors golden signals like CPU, page requests, and queues."
"The initial setup is easy."
"You can tie together your public and private cloud infrastructure into a "single pane of glass"."
"CLM has a multi-cloud portal because they have the resources to implement in various environments in various ports."
"Assesses change impact or completes an audit using multiple dashboard views."
"Supports unattended installs and image-based, script-based, or template-based provisioning."
"Integrates role-based access control with pre-configured policies for CIS, DISA, HIPAA, PCI, SOX, NIST, and SCAP documentation and remediation."
"Automates Java EE Application Deployment from an SCM system."
"By allowing end users to request their own services, the request process for systems is much quicker and more accurate."
"The technical support must be improved."
"It is hard to configure; it is not a straightforward tool."
"I would like to monitor inbound and outbound transfer. I would also like to control the traffic for load balancing."
"Right now, in relation to monitoring services, there are too many services and too many metrics per service."
"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."
"It's not an advanced way of monitoring."
"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 integration could be easier for laypersons."
"The installation and configuration can be tricky due to it being built on Remedy."
"One of the major problems is that support is not so good."
"Needs integrations with other providers to provide a custom public cloud environment."
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Amazon CloudWatch is ranked 9th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 40 reviews while BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management is ranked 43rd in Cloud Monitoring Software. Amazon CloudWatch is rated 8.0, while BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Amazon CloudWatch writes "Instantaneous response when monitoring logs and KPIs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management writes "Automates Java EE Application Deployment from an SCM system". Amazon CloudWatch is most compared with Zabbix, Datadog, Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver), Dynatrace and SolarWinds NPM, whereas BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management is most compared with CloudBolt.
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