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."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."
"You can enable alarms and metrics, and it has robust integration with AWS services. You can also trigger events. For example, if the CPU utilization is above 80%, it can launch a new instance for you."
"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."
"CloudWatch immediately hooks up and connects to the KPIs and all the metrics."
"It's a very simple logging system."
"The most valuable features of Amazon CloudWatch are metrics, dashboards, alarms, logs, events, logs insight, and application insights."
"Amazon CloudWatch's best feature stems from its ability to monitor app performance."
"Our team finds it overall quite useful."
"The product is easy to deploy."
"The product's initial setup is easy."
"When customers want to see the CPU or memory utilization there is a cost. This should be free to see the utilization."
"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."
"It's not an advanced way of monitoring."
"The solution's auto-scaling could be improved."
"CloudWatch's scalability could be improved."
"For monitoring applications or for APM, CloudWatch has some limitations. You cannot monitor application performance from CloudWatch, and you have to go for a third-party tool."
"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."
"Some of our customers want to use Kubernetes to monitor their CICD flow but Amazon CloudWatch does not support it. We need to use another solution, such as Datadog or Dynatrace has the needed capability."
"The product’s scalability is an area with certain limitations, making it an area where improvements are required."
"Instana Infrastructure Monitoring needs to support monitoring of the .NET framework since it is one of the areas where the solution currently has shortcomings."
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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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