We performed a comparison between Amazon CloudWatch and DX Unified Infrastructure Management 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 solution offers very detailed metrics for their services."
"The solution gives us very good real-time data."
"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."
"It's a very simple logging system."
"The detection is the most valuable feature."
"It offers direct integrations with various storage providers, making it convenient to push logs from CloudWatch to these external platforms."
"The alarms are one thing I love about AWS CloudWatch. It has alerts that notify us when resource use is approaching the limit."
"The ability to monitor any platform. We have Windows, Linux, AIX, and mainframe all being monitored with the same UIM infrastructure."
"The real value is our being able to pull all the historic data that we need in order to gather every little metric and nuanced piece of information from a given device, a given piece of infrastructure, in order for us to generate alerts."
"It is easy to implement but requires good planning."
"It provides a comprehensive monitoring solution for our open systems."
"I definitely appreciate the flexibility and ease of use. We've been using UIM for almost three years now. It's pretty much point and click, very easy to use. And we've had no problems scaling it to our own environment."
"MultiWAN and Balance service"
"The monitoring of the applications to let our business know when things are performing and that they're up and available."
"It gives an alarm when there's something going on, not just when there's an expected spike that happens every night on a server."
"It would be beneficial for CloudWatch to provide an API interface and some kind of custom configuration."
"CloudWatch doesn’t monitor disk throughput by default."
"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."
"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."
"The product's configuration has some challenges. The solution needs to be more user-friendly."
"I found several areas for improvement in Amazon CloudWatch. First is that it's tough to track issues and find out where it's going wrong. The process takes longer. For example, if I get an exception error, I read the logs, search, go to AWS Cloud, then to the groups to find the keyword to determine what's wrong. Another area for improvement in Amazon CloudWatch is that it's slow in terms of log streaming. It requires an entire twenty-four hours for scanning, rather than just one hour. This issue can be solved with Elasticsearch streaming with Kibana, but it requires a lot of development effort and integration with Kibana or Splunk, and this also means I need a separate developer and software technical stack to do the indexing and streaming to Kibana. It's a manual effort that you need to do properly, so log streaming should be improved in Amazon CloudWatch. The AWS support person should also have a better understanding of the logs in Amazon CloudWatch. What I'd like added to the solution is a more advanced search function, particularly one that can tell you more information or special information. Right now, the search function is difficult to use because it only gives you limited data. For example, I got an error message saying that the policy wasn't created. I only know the amount the customer paid for the policy, the mobile number, and the customer name, but if I use those details, the information won't show up on the logs. I need to enter more details, so that's the type of fuzzy matching Amazon CloudWatch won't provide. If this type of search functionality is provided, it will be very helpful for businesses and companies that provide professional services to customers, like ours."
"I do not know whether or not CloudWatch can be integrated with on-prem services."
"They need to continue to advance the filter capabilities, and provide more input fields."
"We have experienced challenges with finding a mechanism to deploy the agents, but it's only on the first deployment so it's not a big issue."
"We want to see more investment in the UI and the dashboard."
"In the UMP, certain devices will show up multiple times and they don't correlate correctly. That's one of the issues."
"We've had issues with pulling reports."
"The UIM has no features through goods and services yet. "
"It is a little complex to use versus other softwares."
"It would be good to implement views showing the aggregated status graphically."
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Amazon CloudWatch is ranked 9th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 40 reviews while DX Unified Infrastructure Management is ranked 25th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 120 reviews. Amazon CloudWatch is rated 8.0, while DX Unified Infrastructure 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 DX Unified Infrastructure Management writes "Easy to set up, simple to use, and offers great technical support". Amazon CloudWatch is most compared with Zabbix, Datadog, Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver), Dynatrace and SolarWinds NPM, whereas DX Unified Infrastructure Management is most compared with ManageEngine OpManager, SCOM, DX SaaS, DX Spectrum and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor. See our Amazon CloudWatch vs. DX Unified Infrastructure Management report.
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