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."The monitoring feature is valuable."
"We use Amazon CloudWatch for logging."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is reliability."
"It is a stable solution...I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"The initial setup is easy."
"We have found the pricing to be reasonable."
"The most valuable features of Amazon CloudWatch are metrics, dashboards, alarms, logs, events, logs insight, and application insights."
"Scheduling is a valuable feature."
"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"
"Improvement of SSSD logs would be beneficial."
"There could be further enhancements through CloudWatch's partnerships."
"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."
"This product lacks some features: real-time data stream monitoring, application performance monitoring, mobile app monitoring, and live dashboards. Its workflows also need improvement."
"CloudWatch's scalability could be improved."
"The solution could benefit from a price decrease."
"I would like to monitor inbound and outbound transfer. I would also like to control the traffic for load balancing."
"The solution's pricing is a bit higher."
"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), Dynatrace and Graylog, whereas Amazon OpenSearch Service is most compared with Grafana Loki, Datadog, Zabbix and Security Onion.
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