We performed a comparison between Amazon CloudWatch and Sumo Logic Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Log Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is a stable solution...I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"The solution is easy to use."
"We can create events and alerts. We use the information to dive down into the infrastructure performance."
"The solution effectively monitors golden signals like CPU, page requests, and queues."
"The tool's UI is good. One can scroll through the logs very easily."
"What I found most valuable in Amazon CloudWatch is that it gives you detailed information, which I found helpful because it can even provide you with data for the past one minute, which is quite granular. That was what helped me most in terms of finding the root causes. Task automation is another valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is its ease of use and logs. You do not have to go to each separate system to see the logs, such as Syslog and they are located in one dashboard GUI."
"I can put it in a simple term, its simplicity is always there."
"With this tool, we provide access to every developer team the ability to find errors, then they come to us and ask for specific help."
"Sumo Logic is an easy solution to use. You can set it up very quickly, and it includes a lot of training videos."
"The solution is quite stable."
"Scalability has been good for our needs. We haven't run into any scaling issues in regards to size so far."
"We are able to diagnose problems before our customers."
"Sumo Logic Security is a good solution for searching the logs and identifying the issues."
"Technical support is always great."
"We can ingest logs and make reports out of them. It is a good tool which can help us monitor any issues."
"Right now, in relation to monitoring services, there are too many services and too many metrics per service."
"There is room for improvement in terms of stability."
"The solution should provide human-readable metrics."
"CloudWatch doesn’t monitor disk throughput by default."
"The solution's pricing is a bit higher."
"The solution's auto-scaling could be improved."
"There could be further enhancements through CloudWatch's partnerships."
"When customers want to see the CPU or memory utilization there is a cost. This should be free to see the utilization."
"The initial setup is the most stressful, like learning how to use it."
"We would like to have some type of predefined setup for the logs, making the setup easier by default."
"Sumo Logic Security is expensive, and its pricing could be improved."
"The integration with multiple sources could be better."
"There are some API gaps that are missing."
"If you want to up your subscription through the AWS Marketplace, it can be difficult. You can't just go back to the AWS Marketplace, and say, "I want a bigger one now." You have to contact the sales team, then they do it on the back-end. This could definitely be improved."
"The solution should improve its UI."
"The API integration in Sumo Logic Security could improve. There are delayed connections or they stop and then automatically start. Having a seamless log collection would be beneficial."
Amazon CloudWatch is ranked 12th in Log Management with 40 reviews while Sumo Logic Security is ranked 20th in Log Management with 18 reviews. Amazon CloudWatch is rated 8.0, while Sumo Logic Security is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Amazon CloudWatch writes "Instantaneous response when monitoring logs and KPIs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sumo Logic Security writes "Used to store and monitor application logs and VPC flow logs". Amazon CloudWatch is most compared with Zabbix, Datadog, Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver), Dynatrace and SolarWinds NPM, whereas Sumo Logic Security is most compared with Wazuh, Rapid7 InsightIDR, Microsoft Sentinel and Splunk Enterprise Security. See our Amazon CloudWatch vs. Sumo Logic Security report.
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