We performed a comparison between ActivTrack and AWS CloudTrail based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about CyberArk, Proofpoint, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others in User Activity Monitoring."ActivTrack has a range of features, including a detailed dashboard, alert monitoring, screenshots, and report generation. Overall, ActivTrak has worked as advertised, and we're happy. Our favorite feature is probably the alerts. ActivTrack warns employees when they break the rules, which helps us keep staff in check."
"The product’s most valuable feature is monitoring. It helps us audit the changes in AWS account at the application and resource level."
"It is a stable solution. AWS handles it well."
"AWS CloudTrail helps in accelerating incident investigation and response. It increases it because I pull out the logs to CloudTrail, and from CloudTrail watch, I'll send it to the Security Hub and do a visualization with Prometheus and Grafana."
"What I found most valuable in AWS CloudTrail is that it provides a good context of what's happening in the environment, so it's an excellent way to baseline what's occurring. I also like that AWS CloudTrail helps with audits."
"The solution is good as a central logging platform for showing all cloud events."
"In one specific scenario, we encountered a situation where a terminated employee still had access to our environment without our knowledge. With AWS CloudTrail, we could track and monitor the employees' activities, revealing that they were downloading specific files from our customer's environment. Without it enabled, we wouldn't have been aware of this."
"AWS CloudTrail integrates with AWS Config and provides custom event, security, and compliance auditing."
"I prefer an on-prem deployment, but ActivTrak currently doesn't offer this. It would address privacy concerns that come up for end-users. I would also love it if monitoring could be expanded to company mobile phones. This will enable us to track and maintain productivity on devices like that."
"The solution should incorporate visibility for CloudWatch events."
"The platform’s reporting log sheet feature could be more user-friendly."
"Filtering multiple values within the console is a feature that has yet to exist in AWS CloudTrail. You can look up a user identity, service, or action, but you can't search for multiple dimensions."
"Once the organization defines its policies, it must immediately enable AWS CloudTrail and integrate it with auto-remediation procedures using Lambda functions. This ensures that the main administrator can receive information quickly and on time without delay."
"The solution's operation visibility could be improved."
"Maybe if we could do direct queries on CloudTrail without needing to export it to Athena, that'd be great."
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ActivTrack is ranked 8th in User Activity Monitoring while AWS CloudTrail is ranked 3rd in User Activity Monitoring with 8 reviews. ActivTrack is rated 9.0, while AWS CloudTrail is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of ActivTrack writes "It makes employees more conscious of what they're do on the clock, helping us to deliver better services to our clients". On the other hand, the top reviewer of AWS CloudTrail writes "Very comprehensive logs with good points of view for auditing and compliance". ActivTrack is most compared with , whereas AWS CloudTrail is most compared with CyberArk Privileged Access Manager and Ekran System.
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