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 most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is reliability."
"CloudWatch immediately hooks up and connects to the KPIs and all the metrics."
"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 gives us very good real-time data."
"The monitoring features are valuable."
"The monitoring feature is valuable."
"It's a very simple logging system."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The data collection from our VMs, containers, databases, and backend components is valuable."
"Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring gives us complete visibility without the need for storage."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is its ability to get information about all of the security measurements in my environment."
"The tool is efficient in collecting, monitoring and evaluating logs."
"The features I have found most valuable are log searching and log analytics, both of which are quick features."
"Splunk has drawn our attention to how the network is running. If there are alarms on things that are not functioning, it gives us early warning on problems that could arise."
"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."
"The Add data feature lets you gather any type of log and easily analyze it."
"I do not know whether or not CloudWatch can be integrated with on-prem services."
"When customers want to see the CPU or memory utilization there is a cost. This should be free to see the utilization."
"There's a learning curve with Amazon CloudWatch since we have to learn to write the queries to extract the keys and logs."
"CloudWatch doesn’t monitor disk throughput by default."
"The solution should provide human-readable metrics."
"We'd like the interface to be as easy as Datadog."
"The dashboard of Amazon CloudWatch is not very customizable right now."
"I found several areas for improvement in Amazon CloudWatch. First is that it's tough to track issues and find out where it's going wrong. The process takes longer. For example, if I get an exception error, I read the logs, search, go to AWS Cloud, then to the groups to find the keyword to determine what's wrong. Another area for improvement in Amazon CloudWatch is that it's slow in terms of log streaming. It requires an entire twenty-four hours for scanning, rather than just one hour. This issue can be solved with Elasticsearch streaming with Kibana, but it requires a lot of development effort and integration with Kibana or Splunk, and this also means I need a separate developer and software technical stack to do the indexing and streaming to Kibana. It's a manual effort that you need to do properly, so log streaming should be improved in Amazon CloudWatch. The AWS support person should also have a better understanding of the logs in Amazon CloudWatch. What I'd like added to the solution is a more advanced search function, particularly one that can tell you more information or special information. Right now, the search function is difficult to use because it only gives you limited data. For example, I got an error message saying that the policy wasn't created. I only know the amount the customer paid for the policy, the mobile number, and the customer name, but if I use those details, the information won't show up on the logs. I need to enter more details, so that's the type of fuzzy matching Amazon CloudWatch won't provide. If this type of search functionality is provided, it will be very helpful for businesses and companies that provide professional services to customers, like ours."
"They need more EDR functionalities."
"The implementation can be more user-friendly."
"The solution's stability is an area that has room for improvement. It needs to provide constant stability to its users."
"A lot of customers had a hard time effectively searching within the data in Splunk. There is a learning curve from searches to indexes and using all the macros that we have created. It is a little difficult for somebody who has not used it quite a bit and does not have a lot of practice with it, but the AI features that we have been hearing about through Splunk will make it a lot easier for us to use human language to search this data. That is big. That is pretty powerful, and that will help a lot with our customers."
"The clustering part of indexes can be more refined."
"Splunk would be better if some tools were integrated to be able to take action on security or network concerns."
"The deployment can be quite complex."
"The product collects a lot of data but it does not assure that it collects all of it."
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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 23 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 VMware Aria Operations for Applications, whereas Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is most compared with ServiceNow IT Operations Management, Nagios XI, Cisco Intersight, ITRS Geneos and ControlUp. See our Amazon CloudWatch vs. Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring report.
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