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."The monitoring feature is valuable."
"The alarms are one thing I love about AWS CloudWatch. It has alerts that notify us when resource use is approaching the limit."
"The solution effectively monitors golden signals like CPU, page requests, and queues."
"I have found the memory metrics and the CPU metrics valuable."
"The product can be integrated with AWS very easily."
"CloudWatch immediately hooks up and connects to the KPIs and all the metrics."
"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."
"What my company likes best about Amazon CloudWatch is that it's on AWS. My team also likes it for its log feature. As the solution is on AWS, it also has good pricing and resource availability, plus it's what clients choose. My company also chose AWS for Forge ECS, and at the time, there was a need for the log features provided by Amazon CloudWatch, so it's the solution my team went with."
"It gives us a bird's eye view of what's happening from our connection's point of view."
"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."
"We have used it many times to find a root cause of a live issue, then fix the problem in the applications."
"Support has been excellent. Sumo Logic's support staff is really good, both their account management staff and direct support."
"It helps a lot because we can troubleshoot issues pretty easily."
"We can integrate threat intelligence solutions into the product."
"We are able to diagnose problems before our customers."
"The dashboard of Amazon CloudWatch is not very customizable right now."
"The technical support must be improved."
"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 configuration capabilities could be better."
"This product lacks some features: real-time data stream monitoring, application performance monitoring, mobile app monitoring, and live dashboards. Its workflows also need improvement."
"It is hard to configure; it is not a straightforward tool."
"It would be beneficial for CloudWatch to provide an API interface and some kind of custom configuration."
"It's not an advanced way of monitoring."
"From the network segmentation side, there is some discrepancy in log onboarding. The tool needs to improve direct API integrations, login integration, native login integration, etc."
"I would like to see improvement in the user experience when configuring things, ingesting logs, and creating ports."
"The initial setup is the most stressful, like learning how to use it."
"It took a bit of trial and error to get it set up correctly based on everything we had to do. In the end, we had to send everything over HTTP, which was sort of a stop-gap."
"The solution should improve its UI."
"The integration with multiple sources could be better."
"In my opinion, this solution has a steep learning curve and requires practice if users to be able to use this tool very efficiently."
"Sumo Logic needs to make sure integrating solutions are seamless."
Amazon CloudWatch is ranked 12th in Log Management with 40 reviews while Sumo Logic Security is ranked 19th 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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