We performed a comparison between Amazon CloudWatch and NetApp Cloud Insights based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We have found the pricing to be reasonable."
"Amazon CloudWatch's best feature stems from its ability to monitor app performance."
"It offers direct integrations with various storage providers, making it convenient to push logs from CloudWatch to these external platforms."
"The product can be integrated with AWS very easily."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is reliability."
"We use Amazon CloudWatch for logging."
"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."
"What I found most valuable in Amazon CloudWatch is that it gives you detailed information, which I found helpful because it can even provide you with data for the past one minute, which is quite granular. That was what helped me most in terms of finding the root causes. Task automation is another valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch."
"One feature we appreciate the most is its ability to take snapshots, which adds an extra layer of security and allows us to protect our data effectively."
"Its ability to quickly inventory our resources, figure out interdependencies across them, and assemble a topology of your environment is brilliant. There is a price associated with it. Whenever you target a NetApp environment, it is included in the price but whenever you want to add different vendors, like VMware and Cisco, the price greatly spikes. Inventorization helps us a lot to visualize the environment."
"All our production clusters are in Cloud Insight. It provides a single pane of glass, giving us visibility into the environment, which allows us to understand if any issues are going on across any of our clusters."
"Cloud Insights' best features are visibility and the connector to move the workloads."
"The solution is 98 percent stable."
"Cloud Secure is definitely the most valuable feature and being able to see file level activity. It gives real-time alerting on possible ransomware attacks and provides file security review. It helps us to see if something abnormal is happening on the system before it's too late."
"The solution is easy to deploy."
"Among the most valuable features are the queries and reporting that allow us to look at the utilization of resources, at how well the storage is performing, and to report on which resources are being used by which business units. We can track usage across the entire environment, across applications, business units, cost centers, etc."
"The solution could benefit from a price decrease."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing, because they have a premium version, but it's not really a premium version. It's just an enhanced monitoring version, and it can be a bit expensive depending on your usage."
"Improvement of SSSD logs would be beneficial."
"The monitoring part and GUI are areas in Amazon CloudWatch that have shortcomings currently and can be considered for improvements in the future."
"The solution's integration could be easier for laypersons."
"It is hard to configure; it is not a straightforward tool."
"The product should provide more features."
"It's not an advanced way of monitoring."
"Their pricing model needs improvement."
"The visualization needs some improvement because there are occasional delays while the system queries information."
"Ease of reporting is one thing that they're trying to tackle. If you have a specific set of data you want from Cloud Insights, you can ask NetApp to help you build the reports from the ground up. The dashboards are intuitive, but finding the report you want is sometimes a challenge. If you don't have the report already loaded, pulling it in and letting it build its data can be cumbersome."
"In a perfect world we would have something built, right out-of-the-box, that can identify what we call "noise," and reduce the amount of data. You're presented with so much data when you first start the data collectors. For example, it brings back a lot of change rates that happen just because of standard computing, like profile changes and that sort of thing. Being able to identify things like that and categorize them and strip it down—and it probably can do that, I just haven't gotten there yet—would be very beneficial."
"Cloud Insights could offer more detail when we drill down into the Azure environment."
"The support is not very quick."
"The first level of NetApp's technical support could be improved."
"The IP-based monitoring could be added in a future release."
Amazon CloudWatch is ranked 9th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 40 reviews while NetApp Cloud Insights is ranked 22nd in Cloud Monitoring Software with 12 reviews. Amazon CloudWatch is rated 8.0, while NetApp Cloud Insights is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Amazon CloudWatch writes "Instantaneous response when monitoring logs and KPIs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp Cloud Insights writes "It helps with login monitoring and troubleshooting". Amazon CloudWatch is most compared with Zabbix, Datadog, Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver), Dynatrace and SolarWinds NPM, whereas NetApp Cloud Insights is most compared with Datadog, Dell CloudIQ, Zabbix, IBM Turbonomic and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP. See our Amazon CloudWatch vs. NetApp Cloud Insights report.
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