We performed a comparison between Amazon CloudWatch and Sumo Logic Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Log Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is intrusion prevention."
"It is a stable solution...I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"We can set CPU thresholds using the solution."
"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."
"CloudWatch immediately hooks up and connects to the KPIs and all the metrics."
"We use Amazon CloudWatch for logging."
"I have found the memory metrics and the CPU metrics valuable."
"The tool has key features like operability. It will alert the admins whenever a device is onboarded."
"Technical support is always great."
"The solution is quite stable."
"We have used it many times to find a root cause of a live issue, then fix the problem in the applications."
"Support has been excellent. Sumo Logic's support staff is really good, both their account management staff and direct support."
"Sumo Logic Security is a good solution for searching the logs and identifying the issues."
"I have no concerns about the stability of the product. I feel it handles the stress we put on it very well."
"We use it to ingest Windows domain controller logs. We use this to monitor if anyone is placed in particular administration groups that potentially shouldn't be. It helps us keep track of people."
"The product should provide more features."
"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."
"This product lacks some features: real-time data stream monitoring, application performance monitoring, mobile app monitoring, and live dashboards. Its workflows also need improvement."
"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."
"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."
"There's a learning curve with Amazon CloudWatch since we have to learn to write the queries to extract the keys and logs."
"I think something that can be improved are the alerts and alerting mechanism based on no rejects. We want to have it more flexible and that is one of the key things that is required."
"The solution should provide human-readable metrics."
"Sumo Logic Security is expensive, and its pricing could be improved."
"We would like to have some type of predefined setup for the logs, making the setup easier by default."
"There are some API gaps that are missing."
"There needs to be improvement on imported data which can be used within Sumo Logic to do more advanced queries."
"It took a bit of trial and error to get it set up correctly based on everything we had to do. In the end, we had to send everything over HTTP, which was sort of a stop-gap."
"It would be nice to have an improved ability to scroll through logs within a time frame. Right now, we can search for specific errors. However, if we want to look for "before and after" within a specific time frame, it's not easy using the tool. This would be an improvement."
"The dashboard has room for improvement, because sometimes it is a difficult to create a specific dashboard or query. This would be a nice place to correct problems."
"If you look at some of the other offerings right now that are available in the market, they do offer APM as well as the product they're offering. I believe Sumo Logic is not there yet. So that's something which I would love to see."
Amazon CloudWatch is ranked 12th in Log Management with 40 reviews while Sumo Logic Security is ranked 19th in Log Management with 18 reviews. Amazon CloudWatch is rated 8.0, while Sumo Logic Security is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Amazon CloudWatch writes "Instantaneous response when monitoring logs and KPIs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sumo Logic Security writes "Used to store and monitor application logs and VPC flow logs". Amazon CloudWatch is most compared with Zabbix, Datadog, Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver), Dynatrace and SolarWinds NPM, whereas Sumo Logic Security is most compared with Wazuh, Rapid7 InsightIDR, Microsoft Sentinel and Splunk Enterprise Security. See our Amazon CloudWatch vs. Sumo Logic Security report.
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