Amazon CloudWatch vs AppNeta by Broadcom comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Broadcom are both solutions in the Cloud Monitoring Software category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #15 with an average rating of 7.7, while Broadcom is ranked #44. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 1.6% mindshare in CMS, compared to Broadcom’s 1.0% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Broadcom users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 18, 2024

AppNeta by Broadcom and Amazon CloudWatch are competitors in network and performance monitoring solutions, each catering to different needs. Although AppNeta has attractive pricing and customer support, Amazon CloudWatch holds an advantage due to its wide-ranging features, making it a worthwhile investment for many users.

Features: AppNeta offers in-depth network insights with features like path analysis, performance monitoring, and the ability to capture and analyze packet flow. On the other hand, Amazon CloudWatch provides cloud infrastructure monitoring with capabilities such as real-time metric collection, alarms, logs, and integration with various AWS services.

Room for Improvement: AppNeta can improve by expanding its cloud management features, enhancing its user interface, and increasing integration with third-party tools. For Amazon CloudWatch, enhancements could be made in simplifying its learning curve, optimizing cost predictability, and improving support for non-AWS environments.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: AppNeta deploys rapidly, benefiting from simple setup processes and direct customer support. Amazon CloudWatch, although it takes time to master due to its extensive features, is bolstered by detailed documentation and the AWS community, making it a suitable choice for those within the AWS ecosystem.

Pricing and ROI: AppNeta features a straightforward pricing model with a lower initial cost, making it appealing for network performance solutions. In contrast, Amazon CloudWatch's pricing is variable, based on usage, offering a scalable financial model for comprehensive cloud service management and improved cost-effectiveness over time.

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon CloudWatch

Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software

15th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (22nd), Log Management (20th)

AppNeta by Broadcom

Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software

44th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (64th), Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) (16th), DX NetOps (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2026, in the Cloud Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of Amazon CloudWatch is 1.6%, down from 2.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of AppNeta by Broadcom is 1.0%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Monitoring Software Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Amazon CloudWatch	1.6%
AppNeta by Broadcom	1.0%
Other	97.4%

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Azam S M

Infrastructure Lead at Danat Fz LLC

Has provided reliable monitoring and alerting through extensive metric tracking and dashboard configuration

Amazon CloudWatch itself provides a lot of data. However, for visualization, we need to use third-party tools. We are in a process of integrating Grafana, Loki, and Prometheus to have better visualization on Amazon CloudWatch. We are also integrating Grafana with the application itself to get the application data and logs. Alternatively, there is AWS Kinesis and Glue where you can scrape the logs and have visualization, but a more easy option is Grafana. If you want to get a proper visual representation to see what is happening, then you need to integrate a third-party tool. Amazon CloudWatch has all the data, but to see what is happening, you need some third-party tool.

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Cliff Chapman

Architect at Linkstatus Ltd

Excellent support, easy configuration, and a reliable tool to know what the problem is and where the problem is

They should try and make diagnostics run a bit quicker. When the problem occurs on a network, AppNeta runs automatic diagnostics on the end-to-end path. The path it was testing only to the destination, it now runs the same test to all of the devices and all the intermediate devices. Depending on the number of intermediate devices, it can take several minutes to run. If we're trying to find or diagnose a problem that only lasts two or three minutes, it may be that the diagnostics is still running by the time the problem is cleared. The only thing, which I have also mentioned to AppNeta in the past, is that there should be much faster and much more lightweight diagnostics, which can be completed within 30 seconds or one minute, rather than in 5 to 10 minutes. Currently, when we have short-duration problems, we use a different tool, but we only use that different tool for short-duration problems. With AppNeta, as long as the problem exists for more than a few minutes, such as within 10 to 15 minutes, we can normally tell where the problem is. However, most of the problems that we deal with are intermittent. They're very rarely a permanent condition that needs to be addressed. That makes it more difficult to troubleshoot. We would look to see at least two or three events and hope they show the same results to raise our confidence that we've actually found the problem, rather than just a problem.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The tool's UI is good. One can scroll through the logs very easily."

"The most valuable part is the metrics part, which is really good."

"It is a robust analytical tool and it goes beyond mere functionality and extends into the realm of providing comprehensive insights."

"Setting up this product was easy. I found data analytics as its most valuable feature."

"The solution gives us very good real-time data."

"Our team finds it overall quite useful."

"The most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is its ease of use and logs. You do not have to go to each separate system to see the logs, such as Syslog and they are located in one dashboard GUI."

"The most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is reliability."

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"A lot of times one of the AppNeta transactions showed that there is an issue, whereas everything seemed to be working properly. Once we dug into it, we realized that it really was highlighting a problem that otherwise we would not have seen."

"The product helps us understand networks and user experience. It helps us to understand the issues."

"It has helped us to see issues or problems rather than having a customer report them."

"The main feature that we use is what they call Delivery, which is the testing of network paths end-to-end."

"Technical support is exceptional. They are very available, willing to work with our technicians and engineers and very open to providing training to understand their product more thoroughly."

"Delivery and experience are valuable. The usage in terms of the traffic application captures and other similar things is also valuable."

"No other company has been able to match AppNeta's capability at the same price point."

"With one of our federal customers, we deployed these throughout their network and found multiple cases of misconfigured routers and NICs, which allowed the customer to move to a VOIP solution."

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Cons

"The monitoring part and GUI are areas in Amazon CloudWatch that have shortcomings currently and can be considered for improvements in the future."

"Maybe Amazon Web Services can improve by providing a library for CloudWatch with some useful features."

"This product lacks some features: real-time data stream monitoring, application performance monitoring, mobile app monitoring, and live dashboards. Its workflows also need improvement."

"I found several areas for improvement in Amazon CloudWatch. First is that it's tough to track issues and find out where it's going wrong. The process takes longer. For example, if I get an exception error, I read the logs, search, go to AWS Cloud, then to the groups to find the keyword to determine what's wrong. Another area for improvement in Amazon CloudWatch is that it's slow in terms of log streaming. It requires an entire twenty-four hours for scanning, rather than just one hour. This issue can be solved with Elasticsearch streaming with Kibana, but it requires a lot of development effort and integration with Kibana or Splunk, and this also means I need a separate developer and software technical stack to do the indexing and streaming to Kibana. It's a manual effort that you need to do properly, so log streaming should be improved in Amazon CloudWatch. The AWS support person should also have a better understanding of the logs in Amazon CloudWatch. What I'd like added to the solution is a more advanced search function, particularly one that can tell you more information or special information. Right now, the search function is difficult to use because it only gives you limited data. For example, I got an error message saying that the policy wasn't created. I only know the amount the customer paid for the policy, the mobile number, and the customer name, but if I use those details, the information won't show up on the logs. I need to enter more details, so that's the type of fuzzy matching Amazon CloudWatch won't provide. If this type of search functionality is provided, it will be very helpful for businesses and companies that provide professional services to customers, like ours."

"The solution could benefit from a price decrease."

"Amazon CloudWatch's pricing needs improvement."

"Amazon CloudWatch has all the data, but to see what is happening, you need some third-party tool."

"CloudWatch's scalability could be improved."

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"Fully monitoring asymmetrical links is more costly and complex than symmetrical ones."

"An area of improvement would be to move back towards what AppNeta used to have directly before the Broadcom acquisition."

"Alerting. We have so many paths in our environment that it is strictly a reactive tool, not proactive."

"I think some of the product's documentation has shortcomings and needs improvement."

"I would like to see the following improvements in accessibility: The ability to see the details concerning incidents and their reasons right on the graph, the ability to open those events right from the graph, the ability to see the applications being used at that time."

"The initial setup is complex."

"They should try and make diagnostics run a bit quicker. When the problem occurs on a network, AppNeta runs automatic diagnostics on the end-to-end path. The path it was testing only to the destination, it now runs the same test to all of the devices and all the intermediate devices. Depending on the number of intermediate devices, it can take several minutes to run. If we're trying to find or diagnose a problem that only lasts two or three minutes, it may be that the diagnostics is still running by the time the problem is cleared. The only thing, which I have also mentioned to AppNeta in the past, is that there should be much faster and much more lightweight diagnostics, which can be completed within 30 seconds or one minute, rather than in 5 to 10 minutes."

"As you really start to grow your deployments, it does become quite expensive."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Its pricing is reasonable. It is sometimes tricky, but it is reasonable as compared to others."

"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."

"The pricing is average."

"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."

"Amazon CloudWatch is a cheap solution."

"The pricing model is pay-as-you-go so you have to be mindful of usage to manage costs."

"The pricing can be considered reasonable, especially when already operating on a cloud platform."

"It is a free-of-charge service."

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"I inherited this from a different version, and I haven't yet gone through a renewal because we had purchased three years upfront. So, to me, that still remains to be seen. Once it comes up for renewal, we'll see what happens. Especially because now it is Broadcom, it is going to change anyway."

"The small probe is probably around $3,000 and the very large probe that they make for massive data centers might be $50,000 or $60,000. It's a subscription model, so the payment is per year."

"AppNeta by Broadcom is not expensive."

"It's worth the money."

"We typically don't get involved in the commercial side, but the list price is probably something like $3,000 for a small probe. However, that gives all of the features that the probe can do, whether or not you use them. In the old days, up until two or three years ago, each of the separate features was a separately licensable module so that you could add things that you wanted, and you didn't have to add things that you didn't want. They've changed all that now, and everything the probe can do is a part of the base license."

"I find the solution's price to be fairly good."

"Broadcom software is always a little expensive because they provide quality."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

Transportation Company

Computer Software Company

Construction Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Insurance Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	17
Midsize Enterprise	8
Large Enterprise	25

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	8

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon CloudWatch?

No specific setup costs were mentioned.

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What needs improvement with Amazon CloudWatch?

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What is your primary use case for Amazon CloudWatch?

Amazon CloudWatch is a very small service that AWS provides. It is a monitoring service for applications within the AWS cloud, and we can integrate external applications using the APIs or SDK. The ...

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What open source tool can one use to measure bandwidth from one's upstream service provider?

One I am looking closely at is AppNeta. They have an appliance that can digest the flow and do a better job than Netflow. The other one we are using is ExtraHop. This has both a Datacenter Hig...

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Overview

Amazon CloudWatch integrates seamlessly with AWS, providing real-time monitoring and alerting features. Its interface supports task automation, enhancing troubleshooting and analytics capabilities, while offering strong security and scalability at a cost-effective rate.

Amazon CloudWatch is an impactful platform for monitoring AWS resources and managing application performance. It simplifies infrastructure performance monitoring by providing comprehensive analytics capabilities, including application insights and event scheduling. Users appreciate CloudWatch for its detailed metrics, dashboards, and support in issuing alerts to detect anomalies. It efficiently tracks performance, optimizes resource utilization, and ensures service availability. CloudWatch is recognized for its robust alerting features and integration with other AWS services, further supporting its resource monitoring capabilities. However, there is room for improvement in dashboard customization, log streaming speed, and integration with non-AWS services. Enhancements in API integration, machine learning features, and support for third-party tools are also desired.

What features does Amazon CloudWatch offer?

Seamless Integration: Works effortlessly with AWS for cohesive service management.
Advanced Metrics: Provides detailed monitoring of CPU, memory, and more.
Real-time Monitoring: Offers up-to-the-minute alerts on infrastructure status.
Dashboards: User-friendly and informative for quick insights.
Automation: Supports task automation for efficient troubleshooting.

What benefits does Amazon CloudWatch provide?

Cost-effectiveness: Efficient resource monitoring without high costs.
Scalability: Easily adapts to growing infrastructure needs.
Security: Strong protocols for safe monitoring activities.
Improved Performance: Enhances application insights and operational efficiency.
Operational Insights: Provides comprehensive logging and performance analysis.

Industries implementing Amazon CloudWatch often focus on optimizing IT infrastructure. Companies in sectors like finance and e-commerce rely on its monitoring and alerting capabilities to ensure service uptime and performance. The platform's automation and analytics features empower teams to proactively manage performance and detect potential issues promptly.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

AppNeta by Broadcom specializes in providing comprehensive network visibility with features like end-to-end testing and proactive monitoring. It delivers insights into network performance across multiple environments, aiding in efficient troubleshooting and issue resolution.

AppNeta by Broadcom empowers businesses to manage network performance across cloud and on-prem environments. It facilitates seamless transitions such as SD-WAN and SaaS, offering insights into user experience and application performance. With capabilities like synthetic transactions and load testing, users can quickly isolate performance issues, ensuring robust connectivity in voice and video applications. Though the service is robust, there is room for optimizing diagnostic speed, improving navigation documentation, and reducing non-critical alerts. Enhancements such as advanced dashboard features and efficient deployment options for asymmetrical links would greatly benefit users.

What features define AppNeta?

End-to-end Network Path Testing: Analyzes complete network pathways to ensure seamless data flow.
Synthetic Web Transactions: Simulates user interactions to test application performance.
Packet Captures: Provides detailed insights into data packets for precise troubleshooting.
Proactive Monitoring: Continuously oversees network health to preemptively manage issues.
Cloud-based Management: Facilitates network oversight from remote locations with ease.

What benefits should users evaluate?

Comprehensive Network Visibility: Ensures detailed insights into network performance and bottlenecks.
Efficient Troubleshooting: Quickly identifies and resolves network issues, minimizing downtime.
Robust Alerting: Provides timely notifications to manage potential disruptions swiftly.
User-friendly Interfaces: Simplifies navigation and management of network oversight tasks.

AppNeta by Broadcom is broadly implemented across industries to monitor and optimize network performance, particularly in domains relying heavily on voice and video communication. Organizations leverage its capabilities to ensure seamless operation during digital transitions and to support robust IT infrastructure, adapting rapidly to varied network demands.

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Sample Customers

AirAsia, Airbnb, Aircel, APUS, Avazu, Casa & Video, Futbol Club Barcelona (FCBarcelona), National Taiwan University, redBus

Ebay, Citrix, National Instruments, Marriott, AT&T, Bon-Ton, McDonald's, Netflix, PayPal, Uber, QAD

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