We performed a comparison between Amazon CloudWatch and Instana 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 the monitoring and UI."
"The tool's UI is good. One can scroll through the logs very easily."
"Monitoring time and ensuring ease in it is the most valuable feature."
"We use Amazon CloudWatch for logging."
"Amazon CloudWatch's best feature stems from its ability to monitor app performance."
"It is a stable solution...I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"Setting up this product was easy. I found data analytics as its most valuable feature."
"Our team finds it overall quite useful."
"The product's initial setup is easy."
"The product is easy to deploy."
"It would be beneficial for CloudWatch to provide an API interface and some kind of custom configuration."
"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."
"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."
"This product lacks some features: real-time data stream monitoring, application performance monitoring, mobile app monitoring, and live dashboards. Its workflows also need improvement."
"Right now, in relation to monitoring services, there are too many services and too many metrics per service."
"The technical support must be improved."
"Amazon CloudWatch needs improvement. The main thing is we have noticed missing logs."
"The dashboard and the UI could improve in Amazon CloudWatch. Additionally, they should focus on visibility inside the servers with AI and machine learning integrations. This would allow users who are using the solution to see what is happening within the system better."
"Instana Infrastructure Monitoring needs to support monitoring of the .NET framework since it is one of the areas where the solution currently has shortcomings."
"The product’s scalability is an area with certain limitations, making it an area where improvements are required."
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Amazon CloudWatch is ranked 9th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 40 reviews while Instana Infrastructure Monitoring is ranked 30th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 2 reviews. Amazon CloudWatch is rated 8.0, while Instana Infrastructure Monitoring is rated 9.6. The top reviewer of Amazon CloudWatch writes "Instantaneous response when monitoring logs and KPIs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Instana Infrastructure Monitoring writes "Has the capability to automatically integrate with a large number of products". Amazon CloudWatch is most compared with Zabbix, Datadog, Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver), Dynatrace and Wazuh, whereas Instana Infrastructure Monitoring is most compared with IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM), Zabbix, Opsview, Checkmk and Splunk APM. See our Amazon CloudWatch vs. Instana Infrastructure Monitoring report.
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