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 alarms are one thing I love about AWS CloudWatch. It has alerts that notify us when resource use is approaching the limit."
"We can set CPU thresholds using the solution."
"I have found the memory metrics and the CPU metrics valuable."
"The tool's UI is good. One can scroll through the logs very easily."
"The monitoring feature is valuable."
"It offers direct integrations with various storage providers, making it convenient to push logs from CloudWatch to these external platforms."
"Scheduling is a valuable feature."
"Our team finds it overall quite useful."
"The initial setup was straightforward. We didn't find it to be too complex."
"The Add data feature lets you gather any type of log and easily analyze it."
"The features I have found most valuable are log searching and log analytics, both of which are quick features."
"It's a very easy-to-use solution."
"The tool is efficient in collecting, monitoring and evaluating logs."
"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 vibrant dashboards are valuable."
"The product should provide more features."
"CloudWatch's scalability could be improved."
"I would like to monitor inbound and outbound transfer. I would also like to control the traffic for load balancing."
"The solution could benefit from a price decrease."
"There's a learning curve with Amazon CloudWatch since we have to learn to write the queries to extract the keys and logs."
"The dashboard of Amazon CloudWatch is not very customizable right now."
"I do not know whether or not CloudWatch can be integrated with on-prem services."
"Incorporating a straightforward method or a plug-and-play solution for integrating these databases with our systems, facilitating smooth data transfer, and enabling the creation of dashboards for monitoring and analysis would be beneficial."
"Splunk would be better if some tools were integrated to be able to take action on security or network concerns."
"The implementation can be more user-friendly."
"The clustering part of indexes can be more refined."
"The price has room for improvement."
"Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring's data analytics can be improved by including suggestions for various types of continuous monitoring."
"This solution is difficult to configure and the instructions are complex."
"It does not have a user-friendly interface and it is difficult to use."
"We still use Splunk Enterprise licensing. A lot of the newer features go into Splunk Cloud before Enterprise. We're not looking to switch our licensing over, so we're falling behind on the newer features."
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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 24 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 Azure Cost Management, 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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