We performed a comparison between Amazon CloudWatch and Elastic Observability 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 effectively monitors golden signals like CPU, page requests, and queues."
"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."
"The solution is easy to use."
"It offers direct integrations with various storage providers, making it convenient to push logs from CloudWatch to these external platforms."
"It's a very simple logging system."
"Scheduling is a valuable feature."
"You can enable alarms and metrics, and it has robust integration with AWS services. You can also trigger events. For example, if the CPU utilization is above 80%, it can launch a new instance for you."
"We use Amazon CloudWatch for logging."
"The most valuable feature of Elastic Observability is the text search."
"The price is very less expensive compared to the other solutions."
"We use AppDynamics and Elastic. The reason why we're using Elastic APM is because of the license count. It's very favorable compared to AppDynamics. It's inexpensive; it's economical."
"The architecture and system's stability are simple."
"The ability to ensure that the data is searchable and maintainable is highly valuable for our purposes."
"It has always been a stable solution."
"We can view and connect different sources to the dashboard using it."
"It is a powerful tool that allows users to collect and transform logs as needed, enabling flexible visualization and analysis."
"The solution's auto-scaling could be improved."
"There is room for improvement in terms of stability."
"CloudWatch's scalability could be improved."
"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."
"The product's configuration has some challenges. The solution needs to be more user-friendly."
"It's not an advanced way of monitoring."
"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."
"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."
"They need more skills in the market. There are not enough skills in the market. It is not pervasive enough on the market, in my opinion. In other words, there isn't a big enough user base."
"The cost must be made more transparent."
"The price is the only issue in the solution. It can be made better and cheaper."
"Elastic Observability is reactive rather than proactive. It should act as an ITSM tool and be able to create tickets and alerts on Jira."
"Elastic Observability is difficult to use. There are only three options for customization but this can be difficult for our use case. We do not have other options to choose the metrics shown, such as CPU or memory usage."
"In the future, Elastic APM needs a portfolio iTool. They can provide an easy way to develop the custom UI for Kibana."
"The solution needs to use more AI. Once the product onboards AI, users would more effectively be able to track endpoints for specific messages."
"There's a steep learning curve if you've never used this solution before."
Amazon CloudWatch is ranked 12th in Log Management with 40 reviews while Elastic Observability is ranked 14th in Log Management with 22 reviews. Amazon CloudWatch is rated 8.0, while Elastic Observability is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Amazon CloudWatch writes "Instantaneous response when monitoring logs and KPIs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Elastic Observability writes "The user interface framework lets us do custom development when needed. ". Amazon CloudWatch is most compared with Zabbix, Datadog, Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver), Dynatrace and IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM), whereas Elastic Observability is most compared with Dynatrace, New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry and AppDynamics. See our Amazon CloudWatch vs. Elastic Observability report.
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