We performed a comparison between Amazon CloudWatch and Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring 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."The most valuable features of Amazon CloudWatch are metrics, dashboards, alarms, logs, events, logs insight, and application insights."
"The initial setup is easy."
"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."
"The monitoring feature is valuable."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is the monitoring and UI."
"Amazon CloudWatch's best feature stems from its ability to monitor app performance."
"Monitoring time and ensuring ease in it is the most valuable feature."
"The alarms are one thing I love about AWS CloudWatch. It has alerts that notify us when resource use is approaching the limit."
"Splunk has drawn our attention to how the network is running. If there are alarms on things that are not functioning, it gives us early warning on problems that could arise."
"The feature I find most valuable, is the data integration."
"The initial setup was straightforward. We didn't find it to be too complex."
"It is a great resource for us because we have so many different data sources and to be able to aggregate that and put it through a concise dashboard or an alert really helps."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is its ability to get information about all of the security measurements in my environment."
"It's a very easy-to-use solution."
"The most valuable feature is log reporting."
"The ability to create custom dashboards is one of the best features and that's typically why most people deploy Splunk. Users can create dashboards for just about anything."
"When customers want to see the CPU or memory utilization there is a cost. This should be free to see the utilization."
"What would make Amazon CloudWatch better is if it includes more on-site checks, particularly status checks on the CPU, network input/output, etc. It would also be helpful if there's built-in swap space, disk, and memory monitoring in Amazon CloudWatch because, at the moment, my team has to configure it manually through a shell script."
"Amazon CloudWatch's pricing needs improvement."
"CloudWatch doesn’t monitor disk throughput by default."
"The product's configuration has some challenges. The solution needs to be more user-friendly."
"Better reporting is always something needed. That could be an answer to just about anything. But you always want better reporting, better dashboards, things that are just more dynamic and more accessible."
"The monitoring part and GUI are areas in Amazon CloudWatch that have shortcomings currently and can be considered for improvements in the future."
"Right now, in relation to monitoring services, there are too many services and too many metrics per service."
"The product collects a lot of data but it does not assure that it collects all of it."
"Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring's data analytics can be improved by including suggestions for various types of continuous monitoring."
"The deployment can be quite complex."
"Splunk could be better integrated with configuration manager solutions so we can automatically resolve issues without human interference."
"I would like to see an improvement and some innovation in the customer interface."
"It would be useful if they provided some help pages. If you don't know too much about the tool, there should be more documentation readily available. It would be useful if they had a help button embedded in the solution so you could ask questions and get answers."
"The solution's stability is an area that has room for improvement. It needs to provide constant stability to its users."
"This solution is difficult to configure and the instructions are complex."
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Amazon CloudWatch is ranked 9th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 40 reviews while Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is ranked 13th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 23 reviews. Amazon CloudWatch is rated 8.0, while Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Amazon CloudWatch writes "Instantaneous response when monitoring logs and KPIs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring writes "Helps to ingest a massive amount of raw data and use it effectively". Amazon CloudWatch is most compared with Zabbix, Datadog, Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver), Dynatrace and SolarWinds NPM, whereas Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is most compared with ServiceNow IT Operations Management, Nagios XI, Cisco Intersight, ITRS Geneos and Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence). See our Amazon CloudWatch vs. Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring report.
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