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"ActivTrack has a range of features, including a detailed dashboard, alert monitoring, screenshots, and report generation. Overall, ActivTrak has worked as advertised, and we're happy. Our favorite feature is probably the alerts. ActivTrack warns employees when they break the rules, which helps us keep staff in check."

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"The product’s most valuable feature is monitoring. It helps us audit the changes in AWS account at the application and resource level.""It is a stable solution. AWS handles it well.""AWS CloudTrail helps in accelerating incident investigation and response. It increases it because I pull out the logs to CloudTrail, and from CloudTrail watch, I'll send it to the Security Hub and do a visualization with Prometheus and Grafana.""AWS CloudTrail integrates with AWS Config and provides custom event, security, and compliance auditing.""What I found most valuable in AWS CloudTrail is that it provides a good context of what's happening in the environment, so it's an excellent way to baseline what's occurring. I also like that AWS CloudTrail helps with audits.""The solution is good as a central logging platform for showing all cloud events."

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"I prefer an on-prem deployment, but ActivTrak currently doesn't offer this. It would address privacy concerns that come up for end-users. I would also love it if monitoring could be expanded to company mobile phones. This will enable us to track and maintain productivity on devices like that."

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"The solution's operation visibility could be improved.""Maybe if we could do direct queries on CloudTrail without needing to export it to Athena, that'd be great.""The platform’s reporting log sheet feature could be more user-friendly.""The solution should incorporate visibility for CloudWatch events.""Filtering multiple values within the console is a feature that has yet to exist in AWS CloudTrail. You can look up a user identity, service, or action, but you can't search for multiple dimensions."

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  • "The solution is free if you don't need customizations but is not expensive otherwise."
  • "AWS CloudTrail is pretty affordable, and I have to double-check, but the service is free to use. I can add logs on the console, but if I want to store logs long-term, then I have to pay a storage fee, but it's relatively inexpensive."
  • "CloudTrail itself is free of cost."
  • "It is a very cheap service because management is a SaaS offering from AWS."
  • "AWS CloudTrail is a cheap solution."
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    Top Answer:AWS CloudTrail helps in accelerating incident investigation and response. It increases it because I pull out the logs to CloudTrail, and from CloudTrail watch, I'll send it to the Security Hub and do… more »
    Top Answer:It is a very cheap service because management is a SaaS offering from AWS. The cost depends on how many files you enable, but it's very compatible with other AWS tools.
    Top Answer:It's getting better, but it's not perfect because technology landscapes and use cases constantly evolve. There's a lot happening, so it's not perfect. It's improving.
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    Overview

    ActivTrak collects and normalizes user activity data providing visibility, analytics and context. Get the real story behind HOW your employees work and what hinders their productivity so you can streamline and optimize business tools, processes and teams.

    Uncover poor operational processes and workflow bottlenecks
    Analyze productivity activities and behavior patterns
    Get visibility into cloud application proliferation and usage trends
    Gain insights into remote employee work patterns and time management
    Identify insider threats to reduce security vulnerabilities
    Get alerted to employee activities that introduce compliance risk
    Easily generate detailed reports for audit trail requirements

    AWS CloudTrail is a service that enables governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk auditing of your AWS account. With CloudTrail, you can log, continuously monitor, and retain account activity related to actions across your AWS infrastructure. CloudTrail provides event history of your AWS account activity, including actions taken through the AWS Management Console, AWS SDKs, command line tools, and other AWS services. This event history simplifies security analysis, resource change tracking, and troubleshooting. In addition, you can use CloudTrail to detect unusual activity in your AWS accounts. These capabilities help simplify operational analysis and troubleshooting.

    Sample Customers
    Allstate, Re/Max, OpTech, NOBU, Hive360, Magnolia Bank
    HTC, British Gas, Solinor, 2C2P
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company35%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    Legal Firm6%
    University6%
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    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business52%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise38%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business50%
    Midsize Enterprise38%
    Large Enterprise13%

    ActivTrack is ranked 7th in User Activity Monitoring while AWS CloudTrail is ranked 3rd in User Activity Monitoring with 7 reviews. ActivTrack is rated 9.0, while AWS CloudTrail is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of ActivTrack writes "It makes employees more conscious of what they're do on the clock, helping us to deliver better services to our clients". On the other hand, the top reviewer of AWS CloudTrail writes "Very comprehensive logs with good points of view for auditing and compliance". ActivTrack is most compared with , whereas AWS CloudTrail is most compared with CyberArk Privileged Access Manager and Ekran System.

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