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Olhbe456 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure/Systems Admin at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
Stable platform with efficient cloud monitoring features
Pros and Cons
  • "The product helps us collect and store various metrics to set test alarms."
  • "Amazon CloudWatch's pricing needs improvement."

What is our primary use case?

We use the product to monitor resources for reporting purposes. It alerts us when we are required to scale up resources.

What is most valuable?

The product helps us collect and store various metrics to set test alarms. The metrics allow us to apply the configuration changes in our environment.

What needs improvement?

Amazon CloudWatch's pricing needs improvement.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using Amazon CloudWatch for three years.

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What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The product is very stable.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup process is easy.

What was our ROI?

The product generates a return on investment.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The product's cost is relatively inexpensive.

What other advice do I have?

I rate Amazon CloudWatch an eight out of ten. I recommend the product if you want a system to monitor the resources. It provides proper metrics and manages workload efficiently. It offers features for real-time cloud monitoring. You can view the activities on the network set for a specific timeline.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Trainee cloud at INFRABEAT TECHNOLOGIES PVT LTD
Real User
Top 10
Enhanced monitoring efficiency and effective oversight
Pros and Cons
  • "Monitoring time and ensuring ease in it is the most valuable feature."
  • "Improvement of SSSD logs would be beneficial."

What is our primary use case?

When alarms are triggered, we rely on CloudWatch to check various metrics such as memory utilization and application performance. We examine all the relevant matrices during this process.

What is most valuable?

Monitoring time and ensuring ease in it is the most valuable feature. It offers three distinct signing metrics that allow for effective oversight.

What needs improvement?

Improvement of SSSD logs would be beneficial.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using for a year now.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It has good stability features.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We have thirty members using it, so it is scalable.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup was easy.

What about the implementation team?

The deployment process was done in fifteen minutes and it was very easy.

What other advice do I have?

I would rate this solution ten out of ten.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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reviewer1530864 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer at a renewables & environment company with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
Top 5
The solution can be used for logging, but its pricing could be made cheaper
Pros and Cons
  • "We use Amazon CloudWatch for logging."
  • "The solution's pricing is a bit higher."

What is most valuable?

We use Amazon CloudWatch for logging.

What needs improvement?

The solution's pricing is a bit higher.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I have not faced any issues with the solution’s stability.

How are customer service and support?

Amazon CloudWatch’s technical support is good.

What other advice do I have?

Overall, I rate Amazon CloudWatch a six out of ten.

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Compliance Ofcr at Hotel Trader
Real User
Top 5
A cheap and easy-to-use solution that can run custom queries on logs
Pros and Cons
  • "Amazon CloudWatch is a cheap and easy-to-use solution."
  • "There's a learning curve with Amazon CloudWatch since we have to learn to write the queries to extract the keys and logs."

What is most valuable?

Amazon CloudWatch is a cheap and easy-to-use solution. We can run custom queries on the logs with the solution. Since our whole system is in AWS, we can easily push to Amazon CloudWatch.

What needs improvement?

There's a learning curve with Amazon CloudWatch since we have to learn to write the queries to extract the keys and logs.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using Amazon CloudWatch for five years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Amazon CloudWatch is a stable solution. I rate Amazon CloudWatch a nine out of ten for stability.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Amazon CloudWatch is a scalable solution. I rate Amazon CloudWatch a nine out of ten for scalability.

How was the initial setup?

Amazon CloudWatch's initial setup is easy.

What other advice do I have?

I have not used the solution extensively, but it's not user-friendly, and we have to learn the queries and then type.

If you can write custom queries or learn to write them, you can do many things with Amazon CloudWatch.

Rapid7 is cheap and more user-friendly as compared to Amazon CloudWatch. However, Amazon CloudWatch is more stable as compared to Rapid7.

Overall, I rate Amazon CloudWatch a nine out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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Tech Lead & Solutions Architect at DXC
Real User
Good portability and easy to use but needs to be easier to configure
Pros and Cons
  • "The solution is easy to use."
  • "The configuration capabilities could be better."

What is most valuable?

The portability that we have in Amazon is great. It's very different than the other solutions on offer.

The solution is easy to use. I find it quite enjoyable.

What needs improvement?

The portability of the Datadog is much more flexible for us. The client does not need to have Amazon services for the entire life of the project, unfortunately. They can change. But for Amazon to move over to Google Cloud, for example, that it's very important for the client. They are not investing in a particular single cloud service.

The panel should be better. Datalog's is much more visual.

The configuration capabilities could be better. We've found it to be quite good on Datalog, for example. They should emulate that.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I also have experience with Datalog. I find there a lot more positive aspects of that over this solution.

What about the implementation team?

As an implementor, I can implement the solution for our clients.

What other advice do I have?

I'm an implementor, not a user. We are not a partner.

I'm not sure which version of the solution is currently used, as it depends on the client's environment.

I'd rate the solution at a seven out of ten. I personally have a lot of EC2 stations on Amazon and I have a lot of computing credits on Amazon. I really enjoy using Amazon.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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