We performed a comparison between Amazon CloudWatch and BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Zabbix, New Relic and others in Cloud Monitoring Software."The alarms are one thing I love about AWS CloudWatch. It has alerts that notify us when resource use is approaching the limit."
"CloudWatch immediately hooks up and connects to the KPIs and all the metrics."
"The most valuable features of Amazon CloudWatch are metrics, dashboards, alarms, logs, events, logs insight, and application insights."
"The tool's UI is good. One can scroll through the logs very easily."
"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."
"We have found the pricing to be reasonable."
"The solution gives us very good real-time data."
"Scheduling is a valuable feature."
"Automates Java EE Application Deployment from an SCM system."
"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."
"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."
"The dashboard of Amazon CloudWatch is not very customizable right now."
"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."
"It is hard to configure; it is not a straightforward tool."
"Amazon CloudWatch's pricing needs improvement."
"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."
"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."
"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), SolarWinds NPM and Dynatrace, whereas BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management is most compared with CloudBolt.
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