We performed a comparison between Amazon CloudWatch and BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management 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 tool's UI is good. One can scroll through the logs very easily."
"The solution effectively monitors golden signals like CPU, page requests, and queues."
"The product helps us collect and store various metrics to set test alarms."
"Most of it's around optimizing utilization, their cloud utilization. They're making sure that they're getting the most out of their in-cloud environments and their instances. Making sure that there's no strange behavior in the environment."
"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 solution offers very detailed metrics for their services."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is intrusion prevention."
"We have found the pricing to be reasonable."
"You can tie together your public and private cloud infrastructure into a "single pane of glass"."
"Automates Java EE Application Deployment from an SCM system."
"Assesses change impact or completes an audit using multiple dashboard views."
"CLM has a multi-cloud portal because they have the resources to implement in various environments in various ports."
"Integrates role-based access control with pre-configured policies for CIS, DISA, HIPAA, PCI, SOX, NIST, and SCAP documentation and remediation."
"By allowing end users to request their own services, the request process for systems is much quicker and more accurate."
"Supports unattended installs and image-based, script-based, or template-based provisioning."
"The drill-down aspect on the dashboard of the solution needs improvement. We get a very good high-level overview, but when we drill down, it becomes a little less clear. We have given this feedback to AWS as well and hope they will improve this in the future."
"The product's configuration has some challenges. The solution needs to be more user-friendly."
"CloudWatch's scalability could be improved."
"There's a learning curve with Amazon CloudWatch since we have to learn to write the queries to extract the keys and logs."
"We'd like the interface to be as easy as Datadog."
"I think something that can be improved are the alerts and alerting mechanism based on no rejects. We want to have it more flexible and that is one of the key things that is required."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing, because they have a premium version, but it's not really a premium version. It's just an enhanced monitoring version, and it can be a bit expensive depending on your usage."
"Right now, in relation to monitoring services, there are too many services and too many metrics per service."
"Needs integrations with other providers to provide a custom public cloud environment."
"The installation and configuration can be tricky due to it being built on Remedy."
"One of the major problems is that support is not so good."
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Amazon CloudWatch is ranked 9th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 40 reviews while BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management is ranked 43rd in Cloud Monitoring Software. Amazon CloudWatch is rated 8.0, while BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Amazon CloudWatch writes "Instantaneous response when monitoring logs and KPIs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management writes "Automates Java EE Application Deployment from an SCM system". Amazon CloudWatch is most compared with Zabbix, Datadog, Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver), Dynatrace and SolarWinds NPM, whereas BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management is most compared with CloudBolt. See our Amazon CloudWatch vs. BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management report.
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