We performed a comparison between Amazon CloudWatch, BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management, and SolarWinds NPM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"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."
"Our team finds it overall quite useful."
"Amazon CloudWatch's best feature stems from its ability to monitor app performance."
"We have found the pricing to be reasonable."
"Scheduling is a valuable feature."
"The solution effectively monitors golden signals like CPU, page requests, and queues."
"Automates Java EE Application Deployment from an SCM system."
"Supports unattended installs and image-based, script-based, or template-based provisioning."
"Assesses change impact or completes an audit using multiple dashboard views."
"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."
"You can tie together your public and private cloud infrastructure into a "single pane of glass"."
"SolarWinds is reasonably priced."
"It combines and presents information from many different sources, giving a corporate-wide vision on a single pane of glass."
"Technical support is very helpful with our upgrades."
"We had some interfaces where the SFP Ports were having some problems after a while. We found which of the SFP Ports was having the error and changed it, so the bandwidth become okay."
"SolarWinds' network and server application monitoring features are strong."
"All the features are very good. The monitoring of the equipment, the configuration manager, and the IP address monitoring are great."
"I believe the ease of setup and use, including everything, from the initial installation to the discovery of devices is the most valuable."
"One of the best features is the reports feature."
"CloudWatch's scalability could be improved."
"When customers want to see the CPU or memory utilization there is a cost. This should be free to see the utilization."
"The technical support must be improved."
"The configuration capabilities could be better."
"The solution should provide human-readable metrics."
"The solution could benefit from a price decrease."
"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 product’s documentation must be improved."
"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."
"The reporting module that got integrated into the system itself, used to be a standalone solution and I preferred that."
"Having more technical and support resources available in Saudi Arabia would be helpful."
"SolarWinds needs to be improved such that it is on par with the leading products in the market."
"I would like to see some enhancement on the reporting side, such as making it a little bit easier to create reports or having a larger assortment of canned reports."
"Application Performance Monitoring should be included in this solution."
"It would be nice if SolarWinds could have a polling engine on the site that would collect the reporting and then manage everything itself."
"One of the challenges with SolarWinds is that in order to pull the data, we have to have a lot of false positives."
"The interface could be made more user-friendly."
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