Compare Amazon CloudWatch vs. VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront
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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
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"The solution offers very detailed metrics for their services." "Most of it's around optimizing utilization, their cloud utilization. They're making sure that they're getting the most out of their in-cloud environments and their instances. Making sure that there's no strange behavior in the environment." "The solution gives us very good real-time data." | "This solution allows me to have true visibility for any metrics when it comes to my cloud, and private." "This solution makes it a lot easier to figure out trends within very different data sources, which makes it easy to see why something is misbehaving." "The features I find most valuable is the querying and alerting capabilities." "People are very pleased with the implementation." "The most valuable aspects of the solution are its ease of use and its ease of implementation." "No issues with stability." |
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"Right now, in relation to monitoring services, there are too many services and too many metrics per service." "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 drill-down aspect on the dashboard of the solution needs improvement. We get a very good high-level overview, but when we drill down, it becomes a little less clear. We have given this feedback to AWS as well and hope they will improve this in the future." | "I would like to see integration with Kubernetes cluster and APIs so that you can manage the entire stack." "I would like to see more out-of-the-box dashboards for in-depth application monitoring of standard products that are out there." "In the new version, I would love to see more prediction capabilities. It would be great if one could see the alerts get a little more enriched with information and become more human-friendly instead of the technical stuff that they put in there. I think those would be really awesome outcomes to get." "The implementation is a long process that should be improved." "They could make it more easy to plug-in data so that a nontechnical person will be able to use it, like accountants or finance people. That way they don't have to ask us." "It could use a URL document server. Everything in the market is moving towards automation and everybody's looking for the single click operations as well relational data locality." |
Pricing and Cost Advice | |
"We have monthly licensing costs. The licenses are probably in the vicinity of about $300 - $350/month." | "Educational pricing is available for this solution." "We were given a year's worth of service. It was included within our ELA. We were trying to do a proof of concept, which is almost over now." "Different locations require different setups. In your terms, around 300 to around 400K USD." More VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront Pricing and Cost Advice » |
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Questions from the Community | |
Top Answer: Most of it's around optimizing utilization, their cloud utilization. They're making sure that they're getting the most out of their in-cloud environments and their instances. Making sure that there's… more » Top Answer: The solution is a bit pricey. The solution requires you to pay for technical support, which is tiered, and certain options are quite expensive. Top Answer: I think the machine learning aspect of it probably does help because machine learning is not really machine learning. That needs some help. Better reporting is always something needed. That could be… more » | Ask a question Earn 20 points |
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Views 3,299 Comparisons 2,889 Reviews 3 Average Words per Review 732 Rating 8.0 | Views 6,294 Comparisons 4,335 Reviews 6 Average Words per Review 534 Rating 7.3 |
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Also Known As | |
| Wavefront, Wavefront by VMware, VMware Tanzu Observability | |
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| Amazon | VMware |
Overview | |
Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring service for AWS cloud resources and the applications you run on AWS. You can use Amazon CloudWatch to collect and track metrics, collect and monitor log files, set alarms, and automatically react to changes in your AWS resources. Amazon CloudWatch can monitor AWS resources such as Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon DynamoDB tables, and Amazon RDS DB instances, as well as custom metrics generated by your applications and services, and any log files your applications generate. You can use Amazon CloudWatch to gain system-wide visibility into resource utilization, application performance, and operational health. You can use these insights to react and keep your application running smoothly. | VMware Tanzu Observability provides metrics-driven analytics at massive scale, so you can get the most out of your cloud-native apps. |
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Learn more about Amazon CloudWatch | Learn more about VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront |
Sample Customers | |
| AirAsia, Airbnb, Aircel, APUS, Avazu, Casa & Video, Futbol Club Barcelona (FCBarcelona), National Taiwan University, redBus | Box, Intuit, Workday, Groupon, British Gas, SpaceApe, Marketo, DoordDash, Lyft |
Top Industries | |
Computer Software Company28% Comms Service Provider19% Media Company15% Financial Services Firm5% | Computer Software Company26% Comms Service Provider22% Financial Services Firm12% Government5% |
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon CloudWatch vs. VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront and other solutions. Updated: January 2021.
455,301 professionals have used our research since 2012.
Amazon CloudWatch is ranked 14th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 3 reviews while VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront is ranked 9th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 6 reviews. Amazon CloudWatch is rated 8.0, while VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Amazon CloudWatch writes "Having one platform, as opposed to having to use a lot of different platforms makes a huge difference". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront writes "Simplifies troubleshooting by identifying trends from different data sources". Amazon CloudWatch is most compared with Datadog, Zabbix, Google Stackdriver, SolarWinds NPM and Azure Cost Management, whereas VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront is most compared with Dynatrace, New Relic APM, Splunk, AppDynamics and Nutanix Prism. See our Amazon CloudWatch vs. VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront report.
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