I did not evaluate other solutions. Once we moved to AWS, we looked for a tool that was native to that cloud. That is the process we are currently undertaking for Snowflake and Tableau because CloudWatch doesn't support them well. We do try to use CloudWatch as much as possible. 

My company didn't evaluate other options because Amazon CloudWatch was pretty native. It was the only tool that was there, so Amazon CloudWatch was the only tool my company used and nothing else.

Amazon CloudWatch is a really good product compared to its competitors in the market.

We encountered several challenges during our transition, with the integration process. When considering third-party logging solutions, one of the key concerns is how the integration process will be handled, as it may not be as straightforward as using built-in services.

Actually, we had chosen Amazon Lambda for our serverless programming, and Lambda logs to CloudWatch by default. We can log in to other services, which can be a storage like S3 and all, but it will require more work from us. CloudWatch is the default standard for Lambda logging. Another reason for choosing Amazon CloudWatch is because we use CloudWatch Alarms. If we don't set up CloudWatch Alarms, we will fail certain security compliance standards.

We were using third-party tools before. We had to configure the third-party tools.

I evaluated Nagios.

We never looked at other options because we decided to go with AWS, which meant going with Amazon CloudWatch as well.

I have evaluated many tools, such as SolarWinds New Relic.

We didn't evaluate any other solutions. This is because this was the product that was native to Amazon and so this, we knew, would suit us. There was no need for us to look at another product at that time we set this solution up.

The solution is expensive so a better option might be to use New Relic, Dynatrace, or Zabbix for open source monitoring. 

A central repository lock trail and analytics dashboard could be created in Tableau that stores metrics in one particular location and analyzes data using one particular dashboard.