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 solution offers very detailed metrics for their services."
"The product helps us collect and store various metrics to set test alarms."
"Setting up this product was easy. I found data analytics as its most valuable feature."
"We have found the pricing to be reasonable."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is the monitoring and UI."
"I can put it in a simple term, its simplicity is always there."
"The monitoring features are valuable."
"The most valuable features of Amazon CloudWatch are metrics, dashboards, alarms, logs, events, logs insight, and application insights."
"Automates Java EE Application Deployment from an SCM system."
"Assesses change impact or completes an audit using multiple dashboard views."
"You can tie together your public and private cloud infrastructure into a "single pane of glass"."
"By allowing end users to request their own services, the request process for systems is much quicker and more accurate."
"Integrates role-based access control with pre-configured policies for CIS, DISA, HIPAA, PCI, SOX, NIST, and SCAP documentation and remediation."
"CLM has a multi-cloud portal because they have the resources to implement in various environments in various ports."
"Supports unattended installs and image-based, script-based, or template-based provisioning."
"It would be beneficial for CloudWatch to provide an API interface and some kind of custom configuration."
"This product lacks some features: real-time data stream monitoring, application performance monitoring, mobile app monitoring, and live dashboards. Its workflows also need improvement."
"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."
"Amazon CloudWatch needs improvement. The main thing is we have noticed missing logs."
"The monitoring part and GUI are areas in Amazon CloudWatch that have shortcomings currently and can be considered for improvements in the future."
"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."
"The configuration capabilities could be better."
"I would like to monitor inbound and outbound transfer. I would also like to control the traffic for load balancing."
"Needs integrations with other providers to provide a custom public cloud environment."
"One of the major problems is that support is not so good."
"The installation and configuration can be tricky due to it being built on Remedy."
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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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