Amazon CloudWatch vs Dynatrace comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 23, 2023
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon CloudWatch
Ranking in Log Management
12th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
40
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Monitoring Software (9th)
Dynatrace
Ranking in Log Management
4th
Average Rating
8.8
Number of Reviews
342
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (2nd), Mobile APM (1st), Container Monitoring (1st), AIOps (2nd)
 

Market share comparison

As of June 2024, in the Log Management category, the market share of Amazon CloudWatch is 1.8% and it increased by 23.5% compared to the previous year. The market share of Dynatrace is 5.7% and it decreased by 29.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Log Management
Unique Categories:
Cloud Monitoring Software
8.0%
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
12.8%
Mobile APM
39.8%
 

Featured Reviews

Shubham Chakraworty - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 28, 2023
A scalable and affordable monitoring tool that integrates with different services and has a good support team
It's a monitoring tool. If we want to monitor any of the applications hosted in AWS, we can see the logs and the artifacts of those applications in CloudWatch If we deploy anything and get into some issues, it would be pretty difficult to understand it. So, we go through the CloudWatch logs of…
Varaprasad - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 22, 2023
Saves money; easy to deploy
Our primary use case for this solution is for checking site vulnerability to see if the applications are up or down and if they're running fine This solution has helped our organization by allowing us to check for site vulnerability and performance, which in the end helps us save money. The most…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"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."
"It offers direct integrations with various storage providers, making it convenient to push logs from CloudWatch to these external platforms."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is the monitoring and UI."
"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."
"The initial setup is easy."
"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."
"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."
"We use Amazon CloudWatch for logging."
"The solution's ability to assess the severity of anomalies based on the actual impact to users and business KPIs is great. It's exactly what we need. The severity impact is based on the users, the availability, and the impact it has on your business."
"The UEM feature, User Experience Management: Understanding how users are perceiving the application and then connecting that back into back-end systems to understand why things have gotten slow and then dealing with things."
"We have used Dynatrace in our performance testing environments to get ahead of issues before they make it into production."
"Great tool for deep diving into performance data and tracking issues through all the connected systems to better diagnose and pinpoint the real issues."
"This is a stable solution."
"One aspect of development is the concept of continuous improvements. There are key screens in our applications. We get identification, through Dynatrace on its own, that these are our top ten slow preforming screens."
"We can go back to when a specific user had an issue and trace the entire transaction from the client to the database."
"It helps to improve code efficiency and has quicker performance analysis."
 

Cons

"We'd like the interface to be as easy as Datadog."
"The product should provide more features."
"The solution's auto-scaling could be improved."
"There's a learning curve with Amazon CloudWatch since we have to learn to write the queries to extract the keys and logs."
"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."
"Right now, in relation to monitoring services, there are too many services and too many metrics per service."
"The monitoring part and GUI are areas in Amazon CloudWatch that have shortcomings currently and can be considered for improvements in the future."
"Amazon CloudWatch's pricing needs improvement."
"The initial setup was relatively complex because we were trying to implement into environments that they did not yet support."
"There is another challenge, which is in case of the Managed solution. In our old solution we could simply export the data as session data, and that would be imported and seen. Now, if we are using the Managed solution, then giving someone access to that solution is a challenge. We can handle it, but it's different than taking screenshots and saving that information the way we used to. The copy/paste features that were there in old application - because it was a fat app - were nice, compared to browser-based app, because you cannot really use those features anymore."
"I think Dynatrace needs improvements with respect to reporting; not just performance, but the business-level reports."
"The solution is a bit pricey."
"I would suggest to have more rich client features on Appmon as soon as possible."
"It needs education and training to ensure you get the full value of your purchase. Maybe add in a certification for Dynatrace."
"More integrations could prove very beneficial to us."
"Mainly navigation needs improvement. It is easier to follow a flow. Following the flow of the admin now is not easy."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of Amazon CloudWatch is reasonable for detailed basic monitoring."
"What's were using is the free service of Amazon CloudWatch, so they're not charging us. As for hidden fees, we're not aware of them because we're using what our clients provided us."
"It is a free-of-charge service."
"Amazon CloudWatch has very cheap pricing, and it hardly costs my company $25-$30 a month for fifty systems, so it's pretty affordable."
"The price of Amazon CloudWatch is reasonable. When the rate of data collection is done the price will increase. The price is less than other solutions."
"The price is okay for me."
"It’s an open-source solution."
"I consider it as a medium-priced solution."
"Getting the first agents installed, getting information, and coverage in a initial set of systems can be done in hours and with a low cost entry point."
"There was also some complexity in the adoption rate of it because of how costly the licensing is."
"The pricing is a bit on the higher end."
"Dynatrace is the most expensive APM that we sell, compared to competitors' products. The license pricing could be improved. My customers pay for licensing yearly."
"I have not been able to observe more than 1% overhead, despite Dynatrace saying that it can be slightly higher in some situations."
"Licensing is very interesting, as you pay only for what is being monitored. A lot of things are given away for no additional cost. If you have a great IT consolidation, it will be pretty cheap. If you have a lot of servers, it will be heavier."
"This is an expensive solution, but it is also worth the money."
"Dynatrace is still kind of an expensive solution compared to others. But I recognize that they are ahead of the competition when we do a feature by feature comparison."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Government
6%
Educational Organization
28%
Financial Services Firm
18%
Computer Software Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Amazon CloudWatch?
CloudWatch doesn’t monitor disk throughput by default. It is part of EC2. If EC2 forwards the logs, then we can do it.
Any advice about APM solutions?
The key is to have a holistic view over the complete infrastructure, the ones you have listed are great for APM if you need to monitor applications end to end. I have tested them all and have not f...
What cloud monitoring software did you choose and why?
While the environment does matter in the selection of an APM tool, I prefer to use Dynatrace to manage the entire stack. Both production and Dev/Test. I find it to be quite superior to anything els...
Any advice about APM solutions?
There are many factors and we know little about your requirements (size of org, technology stack, management systems, the scope of implementation). Our goal was to consolidate APM and infra monitor...
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

AirAsia, Airbnb, Aircel, APUS, Avazu, Casa & Video, Futbol Club Barcelona (FCBarcelona), National Taiwan University, redBus
Audi, Best Buy, LinkedIn, CISCO, Intuit, KRONOS, Scottrade, Wells Fargo, ULTA Beauty, Lenovo, Swarovsk, Nike, Whirlpool, American Express
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