We compared Amazon CloudWatch and BMC TrueSight Operations based on our users' reviews in five categories. We reviewed all of the data and you can find the conclusion below.
Features: Amazon CloudWatch users liked the solution’s simplicity, intuitive interface, and ability to handle large workloads. Users also praised CloudWatch’s comprehensive monitoring and alerts. BMC TrueSight Operations Management earned high marks for its comprehensive analysis, simulated monitoring capability, and detailed reporting.
Room for improvement: Some reviews mentioned that Amazon CloudWatch could improve performance and dashboard visualization. Others noted that the solution lacked compatibility with some databases. TrueSight users say the solution could allow the user to drill down more and improve interoperability.
Service and Support: Customers generally have positive opinions about Amazon's customer service. They commended the support team for its availability and timely issue resolution. Some customers praised BMC support as quick and efficient, but others experienced delayed responses and said some engineers lacked product knowledge.
Ease of Deployment: Amazon CloudWatch is generally described as easy to set up. BMC TrueSight Operations Management's setup can be more challenging and time-consuming than some solutions.
Pricing: Amazon CloudWatch offers a flexible pricing structure based on usage and processing, without any separate licensing cost. Some users said that scaling up can be costly due to the need for additional storage space. BMC TrueSight Operations Management is geared toward enterprise customers, so it’s more costly than some, but the price is negotiated on a case-by-case basis.
ROI: Amazon CloudWatch offers a return on investment by minimizing the need for manual monitoring. Users said TrueSight’s ROI is difficult to quantify and uncertain.
Comparison Results: Reviewers say that Amazon CloudWatch is a simple, intuitive solution that can handle large workloads, but some mentioned dashboard visualization and customizability as areas for improvement. BMC TrueSight Operations Management is a premium enterprise solution suitable for large enterprises. It features comprehensive monitoring capabilities and excellent reporting. However, TrueSight’s steep price tag may put it out of reach for many small businesses, the setup is complicated, and the solution’s support has received mixed reviews.
"It is a robust analytical tool and it goes beyond mere functionality and extends into the realm of providing comprehensive insights."
"The most valuable features of Amazon CloudWatch are metrics, dashboards, alarms, logs, events, logs insight, and application insights."
"The solution effectively monitors golden signals like CPU, page requests, and queues."
"The monitoring features are valuable."
"The product helps us collect and store various metrics to set test alarms."
"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."
"We use Amazon CloudWatch for logging."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is the monitoring and UI."
"Valuable features include wide support for monitoring, strong event management, service management capability, baselining (analytics) and easy to integrate other tools with it."
"It is a very stable product."
"The ability of this platform to monitor the very diverse assets that we maintain around the world is its most valuable feature... We support a vast array of manufacturers' equipment, like HP, IBM, Cisco, Dell, EMC, Hitachi... We can do it all with [this] one [solution]."
"It is breadth. It covers so many different technologies which can roll up into a single console."
"The most valuable features of the solution are alert management, alert generation, and event management."
"The initial setup of BMC TrueSight Operations Management was easy."
"The most beneficial part of the product in terms of IT monitoring revolves around the areas involving automation, and it also serves as an end-to-end event management and incident management tool."
"Signature baselines, which have allowed us to fine tune many of our events and significantly reduce the number of events generated."
"The product’s documentation must be improved."
"Some of our customers want to use Kubernetes to monitor their CICD flow but Amazon CloudWatch does not support it. We need to use another solution, such as Datadog or Dynatrace has the needed capability."
"Amazon CloudWatch's pricing needs improvement."
"There is room for improvement in terms of stability."
"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."
"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."
"There could be further enhancements through CloudWatch's partnerships."
"The solution should provide human-readable metrics."
"In a large company of our size, we need multiple people in our company trained. So, I have to take the training classes. Then, I have to go and train the rest of my organization. I would prefer to say to the other people on my team, "Go to this link and..." Or, "Here's a list of training sessions that you can go to which are online and that are free." I think it would help the adoption of their product in the marketplace, personally."
"One of the things that the TrueSight environment is missing is some of the HA abilities. The data collection server called the ISM doesn't really have the HA functionality or workload balancing. It was missing from the previous product as well. It's missing redundancy."
"I think the ease of deployment needs to be looked at. It would be great if the deployment was faster and easier."
"Application performance management (APM) is an area with certain shortcomings in the solution that needs improvement. I"
"The graphs are extremely limited. We don't have a lot of dashboard options. To make reports and dashboards more useful, we usually need to integrate some dashboard solutions."
"The solution is a little obsolete."
"The solution should improve predicting events and flaws in service. It also needs to improve integration with other systems."
"BMC TrueSight Operations Management could use some enhancements in the application visibility tools."
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Amazon CloudWatch is ranked 9th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 40 reviews while BMC TrueSight Operations Management is ranked 16th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 50 reviews. Amazon CloudWatch is rated 8.0, while BMC TrueSight Operations Management 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 BMC TrueSight Operations Management writes "The product is reasonably priced, but the solution is a little obsolete because it is deployed on-premise". Amazon CloudWatch is most compared with Zabbix, Datadog, Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver), Dynatrace and SolarWinds NPM, whereas BMC TrueSight Operations Management is most compared with BMC Helix Monitor, Dynatrace, ServiceNow IT Operations Management, Zabbix and New Relic. See our Amazon CloudWatch vs. BMC TrueSight Operations Management report.
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