We performed a comparison between Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon OpenSearch Service based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Splunk, Wazuh, Datadog and others in Log Management."I have found the memory metrics and the CPU metrics valuable."
"Setting up this product was easy. I found data analytics as its most valuable feature."
"The solution is easy to use."
"CloudWatch immediately hooks up and connects to the KPIs and all the metrics."
"The tool's UI is good. One can scroll through the logs very easily."
"It's a very simple logging system."
"The solution offers very detailed metrics for their services."
"The product helps us collect and store various metrics to set test alarms."
"We retrieve historical data with just a click of a button to move it from cold to hot or warm because it's already stored in the backend storage"
"Amazon CloudWatch needs improvement. The main thing is we have noticed missing logs."
"It would be beneficial for CloudWatch to provide an API interface and some kind of custom configuration."
"There's a learning curve with Amazon CloudWatch since we have to learn to write the queries to extract the keys and logs."
"What would make Amazon CloudWatch better is if it includes more on-site checks, particularly status checks on the CPU, network input/output, etc. It would also be helpful if there's built-in swap space, disk, and memory monitoring in Amazon CloudWatch because, at the moment, my team has to configure it manually through a shell script."
"The product's configuration has some challenges. The solution needs to be more user-friendly."
"The solution should provide human-readable metrics."
"It's not an advanced way of monitoring."
"Improvement of SSSD logs would be beneficial."
"It would be beneficial to have some level of customization available in the managed service, tailored to the specific use cases of the end users."
Amazon CloudWatch is ranked 12th in Log Management with 40 reviews while Amazon OpenSearch Service is ranked 46th in Log Management with 1 review. Amazon CloudWatch is rated 8.0, while Amazon OpenSearch Service is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of Amazon CloudWatch writes "Instantaneous response when monitoring logs and KPIs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Amazon OpenSearch Service writes "A managed solution that provides login authentication but has high cost". Amazon CloudWatch is most compared with Zabbix, Datadog, Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver), Dynatrace and Graylog, whereas Amazon OpenSearch Service is most compared with Grafana Loki, Datadog, Zabbix and Security Onion.
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