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 product helps us collect and store various metrics to set test alarms."
"The monitoring feature is valuable."
"The monitoring features are valuable."
"Amazon CloudWatch is a cheap and easy-to-use solution."
"Scheduling is a valuable feature."
"We use Amazon CloudWatch for logging."
"What my company likes best about Amazon CloudWatch is that it's on AWS. My team also likes it for its log feature. As the solution is on AWS, it also has good pricing and resource availability, plus it's what clients choose. My company also chose AWS for Forge ECS, and at the time, there was a need for the log features provided by Amazon CloudWatch, so it's the solution my team went with."
"We have found the pricing to be reasonable."
"The Add data feature lets you gather any type of log and easily analyze it."
"It is very easy to monitor multiple cloud environments. It's like a single pane of glass for us. We can use it to monitor our on-prem and both of our cloud environments as opposed to having different tools for each environment. It makes it all come together in one tool."
"We haven't really experienced any glitches or bugs."
"The product retains a lot of log data for subsequent analysis."
"I find the monitoring console very helpful. With one click, I can see how we are performing, and at the same time, I can see what data is flowing."
"The alerts are the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is log reporting."
"The initial setup was straightforward. We didn't find it to be too complex."
"Amazon CloudWatch's pricing needs improvement."
"It would be beneficial for CloudWatch to provide an API interface and some kind of custom configuration."
"Incorporating a straightforward method or a plug-and-play solution for integrating these databases with our systems, facilitating smooth data transfer, and enabling the creation of dashboards for monitoring and analysis would be beneficial."
"CloudWatch's scalability could be improved."
"The dashboard of Amazon CloudWatch is not very customizable right now."
"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."
"The product should provide more features."
"It's not an advanced way of monitoring."
"A lot of customers had a hard time effectively searching within the data in Splunk. There is a learning curve from searches to indexes and using all the macros that we have created. It is a little difficult for somebody who has not used it quite a bit and does not have a lot of practice with it, but the AI features that we have been hearing about through Splunk will make it a lot easier for us to use human language to search this data. That is big. That is pretty powerful, and that will help a lot with our customers."
"The price has room for improvement."
"In the next release, I would like to see more integration with other solutions."
"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 does not have a user-friendly interface and it is difficult to use."
"Splunk would be better if some tools were integrated to be able to take action on security or network concerns."
"There is a lot of room for improvement with the automation."
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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 24 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 IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM), whereas Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is most compared with ServiceNow IT Operations Management, Nagios XI, Cisco Intersight, ITRS Geneos and ControlUp. See our Amazon CloudWatch vs. Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring report.
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