We compared Amazon CloudWatch and BMC TrueSight Operations based on our users' reviews in five categories. We reviewed all of the data and you can find the 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. BMC TrueSight Operations Management earned high marks for its comprehensive analysis, simulated monitoring capability, and detailed reporting.
Room for improvement: Some reviews mentioned that Amazon CloudWatch could improve performance and dashboard visualization. Others noted that the solution lacked compatibility with some databases. TrueSight users say the solution could allow the user to drill down more and improve interoperability.
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. Some customers praised BMC support as quick and efficient, but others experienced delayed responses and said some engineers lacked product knowledge.
Ease of Deployment: Amazon CloudWatch is generally described as easy to set up. BMC TrueSight Operations Management's setup can be more challenging and time-consuming than some solutions.
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. BMC TrueSight Operations Management is geared toward enterprise customers, so it’s more costly than some, but the price is negotiated on a case-by-case basis.
ROI: Amazon CloudWatch offers a return on investment by minimizing the need for manual monitoring. Users said TrueSight’s ROI is difficult to quantify and uncertain.
Comparison Results: Reviewers say that Amazon CloudWatch is a simple, intuitive solution that can handle large workloads, but some mentioned dashboard visualization and customizability as areas for improvement. BMC TrueSight Operations Management is a premium enterprise solution suitable for large enterprises. It features comprehensive monitoring capabilities and excellent reporting. However, TrueSight’s steep price tag may put it out of reach for many small businesses, the setup is complicated, and the solution’s support has received mixed reviews.
"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."
"The product helps us collect and store various metrics to set test alarms."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is reliability."
"I can put it in a simple term, its simplicity is always there."
"The product can be integrated with AWS very easily."
"The monitoring features are valuable."
"The alarms are one thing I love about AWS CloudWatch. It has alerts that notify us when resource use is approaching the limit."
"Setting up this product was easy. I found data analytics as its most valuable feature."
"I like the event management part."
"The solution provides visibility to our infrastructure, how it is, the resources we are monitoring, and quick updates when it has any problems. We have integrated it with ServiceNow to open instances."
"What I like best about BMC TrueSight Operations Management is that it allows you to do granular monitoring and improves VM load."
"It is a stable solution."
"Valuable features include wide support for monitoring, strong event management, service management capability, baselining (analytics) and easy to integrate other tools with it."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The most valuable features of the solution are alert management, alert generation, and event management."
"It has provided us with a single location to host all events to be viewed/monitored by our NOC. This has greatly helped them to streamline their processes."
"The product’s documentation must be improved."
"It would be beneficial for CloudWatch to provide an API interface and some kind of custom configuration."
"I do not know whether or not CloudWatch can be integrated with on-prem services."
"The solution's pricing is a bit higher."
"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."
"Amazon CloudWatch's pricing needs improvement."
"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."
"This product lacks some features: real-time data stream monitoring, application performance monitoring, mobile app monitoring, and live dashboards. Its workflows also need improvement."
"It would be better if the initial setup and deployment were more straightforward."
"The product must provide application or service monitoring features."
"The knowledge modules could be more lightweight in size. At present, the installation packages can be quite large."
"I would really like to see out-of-the-box support for monitoring uninterruptible power supplies."
"Reporting would be an area for improvement in TrueSight... We have almost 800 customers today on TrueSight and just under 10,000 assets. We need to be able to give a customer some information. If the customer's product fails, they'll ask us, "Did it have a problem beforehand?" We have all those events and we know all the problems it had beforehand. We have to be able to give them access to that kind of reporting. That's an enhancement that we need."
"I definitely would like to see more improvement in the self-diagnostics. I need to know when anything is not working or collecting, long before our customer finds it."
"I would like to see a little more out-of-the-box event correlation and expanded AIOps type capabilities. Where you can train your artificial intelligence operations to be able to memorize an issue once you encounter one scenario, so if you encounter that same problem, you can get to the root cause very quickly."
"The stability of BMC TrueSight Operations Management needs improvement. My organization's infrastructure is vast and implemented based on BMC recommendations, but the solution needs to be optimized for large-capacity infrastructure."
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Amazon CloudWatch is ranked 9th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 40 reviews while BMC TrueSight Operations Management is ranked 17th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 49 reviews. Amazon CloudWatch is rated 8.0, while BMC TrueSight Operations Management 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 BMC TrueSight Operations Management writes "The product is reasonably priced, but the solution is a little obsolete because it is deployed on-premise". Amazon CloudWatch is most compared with Zabbix, Datadog, Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver), Dynatrace and SolarWinds NPM, whereas BMC TrueSight Operations Management is most compared with BMC Helix Monitor, Dynatrace, ServiceNow IT Operations Management, Zabbix and New Relic. See our Amazon CloudWatch vs. BMC TrueSight Operations Management report.
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