We performed a comparison between Amazon CloudWatch and Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring 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."We can set CPU thresholds using the solution."
"It is a stable solution...I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"Most of it's around optimizing utilization, their cloud utilization. They're making sure that they're getting the most out of their in-cloud environments and their instances. Making sure that there's no strange behavior in the environment."
"I have found the memory metrics and the CPU metrics valuable."
"The product helps us collect and store various metrics to set test alarms."
"It is a robust analytical tool and it goes beyond mere functionality and extends into the realm of providing comprehensive insights."
"What my company likes best about Amazon CloudWatch is that it's on AWS. My team also likes it for its log feature. As the solution is on AWS, it also has good pricing and resource availability, plus it's what clients choose. My company also chose AWS for Forge ECS, and at the time, there was a need for the log features provided by Amazon CloudWatch, so it's the solution my team went with."
"We have found the pricing to be reasonable."
"The solution's basic visibility is one of its most valuable features. So, it is a solution that is easy to use...The solution's initial setup process was straightforward."
"The most valuable feature in this solution is the log searching."
"The ability to create custom dashboards is one of the best features and that's typically why most people deploy Splunk. Users can create dashboards for just about anything."
"The initial setup was straightforward. We didn't find it to be too complex."
"The product retains a lot of log data for subsequent analysis."
"We haven't really experienced any glitches or bugs."
"I find the monitoring console very helpful. With one click, I can see how we are performing, and at the same time, I can see what data is flowing."
"Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring gives us complete visibility without the need for storage."
"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."
"I would like to monitor inbound and outbound transfer. I would also like to control the traffic for load balancing."
"The solution should provide human-readable metrics."
"The dashboard of Amazon CloudWatch is not very customizable right now."
"We'd like the interface to be as easy as Datadog."
"The technical support must be improved."
"Amazon CloudWatch's pricing needs improvement."
"When customers want to see the CPU or memory utilization there is a cost. This should be free to see the utilization."
"The product collects a lot of data but it does not assure that it collects all of it."
"We still use Splunk Enterprise licensing. A lot of the newer features go into Splunk Cloud before Enterprise. We're not looking to switch our licensing over, so we're falling behind on the newer features."
"The deployment can be quite complex."
"The solution should have more sensors regarding fiber intelligence for security measures."
"We have both on-prem and cloud, and the challenge is getting all our log data aggregated or streams aggregated so that it is real-time. We do a pretty good job of that, but our organization is not using it as a security platform when it can do a great job of that."
"The solution's stability is an area that has room for improvement. It needs to provide constant stability to its users."
"In the next release, I would like to see more integration with other solutions."
"It would be useful if they provided some help pages. If you don't know too much about the tool, there should be more documentation readily available. It would be useful if they had a help button embedded in the solution so you could ask questions and get answers."
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Amazon CloudWatch is ranked 9th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 40 reviews while Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is ranked 13th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 24 reviews. Amazon CloudWatch is rated 8.0, while Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring 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 Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring writes "Helps to ingest a massive amount of raw data and use it effectively". Amazon CloudWatch is most compared with Zabbix, Datadog, Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver), Dynatrace and New Relic, whereas Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is most compared with ServiceNow IT Operations Management, Nagios XI, Cisco Intersight, ITRS Geneos and Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence). See our Amazon CloudWatch vs. Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring report.
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