We performed a comparison between Amazon CloudWatch and Instana Infrastructure Monitoring 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 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."
"It is a stable solution...I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"The product can be integrated with AWS very easily."
"The tool's UI is good. One can scroll through the logs very easily."
"Scheduling is a valuable feature."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The monitoring feature is valuable."
"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."
"The product's initial setup is easy."
"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."
"We'd like the interface to be as easy as Datadog."
"Amazon CloudWatch's pricing needs improvement."
"CloudWatch's scalability could be improved."
"The dashboard and the UI could improve in Amazon CloudWatch. Additionally, they should focus on visibility inside the servers with AI and machine learning integrations. This would allow users who are using the solution to see what is happening within the system better."
"The monitoring part and GUI are areas in Amazon CloudWatch that have shortcomings currently and can be considered for improvements in the future."
"There could be further enhancements through CloudWatch's partnerships."
"Amazon CloudWatch needs improvement. The main thing is we have noticed missing logs."
"Instana Infrastructure Monitoring needs to support monitoring of the .NET framework since it is one of the areas where the solution currently has shortcomings."
Amazon CloudWatch is ranked 9th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 40 reviews while Instana Infrastructure Monitoring is ranked 30th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 1 review. Amazon CloudWatch is rated 8.0, while Instana Infrastructure Monitoring is rated 9.0. 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 "A reasonably stable and scalable tool for monitoring purposes with an easy initial setup". Amazon CloudWatch is most compared with Zabbix, Datadog, Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver), Dynatrace and Azure Cost Management, whereas Instana Infrastructure Monitoring is most compared with Zabbix, IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM), Checkmk, Opsview and Splunk APM.
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