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Amazon CloudWatch vs Devo comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
7.0
Amazon CloudWatch enhances ROI by automating monitoring, reducing staffing costs, and improving developer productivity with centralized dashboards.
Sentiment score
6.5
Devo enhances data analysis and threat detection cost-effectively, offering scalability, customization, and efficiency in resource allocation.
Automated alerts, centralized dashboards, and log analysis reduce troubleshooting time, improve incident response, and minimize manual monitoring.
Senior Engineer at Airy Software Technologies Private Limited
Amazon CloudWatch offers cost-saving advantages by being an inbuilt solution that requires no separate setup or maintenance for monitoring tasks.
Digital Services & Engagement Senior Manager at AXA
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.5
Amazon CloudWatch support is praised for responsiveness and expertise, though resolution speed varies with support tiers and engineer quality.
Sentiment score
6.7
Devo's customer service is praised for responsiveness and effectiveness, but some seek better documentation and clarity in ticket handling.
In recent years, due to business expansion, knowledge levels among support engineers seem to vary.
Digital Services & Engagement Senior Manager at AXA
While using their cloud and cloud resources, if you have an issue with CloudWatch, you must pay additional monthly fees to get time from dedicated tech support.
founder, ceo at Techrev Solutions Pvt Ltd
Customer support for Amazon CloudWatch has been excellent.
Senior Engineer at Airy Software Technologies Private Limited
I rate the customer support a nine out of ten because of their timely technical guidance and responsiveness during the deployment and troubleshooting periods.
Cyber Security Engineer Ii (Vulnerability & Threat Management) at FICO
Both response time and support quality need attention.
Team Lead SOC at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.7
Amazon CloudWatch is praised for seamless scalability, efficient data handling, and stability, despite some cost concerns.
Sentiment score
7.0
Devo's cloud-based architecture ensures impressive scalability, efficiently managing large data volumes and integrating users across regions without limitations.
It is already there as a managed service from AWS.
Infrastructure Lead at Danat Fz LLC
The scalability of Amazon CloudWatch is very good, providing high throughput and auto-managing applications alongside auto-dashboard support.
Senior Engineer at Airy Software Technologies Private Limited
Amazon CloudWatch's scalability is managed by AWS.
Digital Services & Engagement Senior Manager at AXA
Devo is a unified SIEM solution designed to handle growing log volumes and enterprise-scale monitoring requirements.
Cyber Security Engineer Ii (Vulnerability & Threat Management) at FICO
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.1
Amazon CloudWatch is highly reliable with minimal bugs, though minor delays and some query complexity are occasionally noted.
Sentiment score
7.3
Devo is praised for its stability, reliable uptime, proactive support, and effective management of large deployments despite minor issues.
I sometimes notice slowness when Amazon CloudWatch agents are installed on machines with less capacity, causing me to use other monitoring tools.
Digital Services & Engagement Senior Manager at AXA
It is stable and reliable for our security operations.
Cyber Security Engineer Ii (Vulnerability & Threat Management) at FICO
 

Room For Improvement

Amazon CloudWatch users desire more intuitive dashboards, cost-effectiveness, better integration, and improved monitoring and scalability features.
Devo's Activeboards need better customization, integration, UI, and AI capabilities, while cost and usability require attention.
When using third-party dashboards such as Kibana or Grafana and other visualization tools, there should be a way to feed CloudWatch's data and logging capabilities into these visualization tools.
founder, ceo at Techrev Solutions Pvt Ltd
We are in a process of integrating Grafana, Loki, and Prometheus to have better visualization on Amazon CloudWatch.
Infrastructure Lead at Danat Fz LLC
I wish to see simpler pricing, more intuitive dashboards, easier log queries for beginners, richer visualization options, and strong AI-assisted troubleshooting.
Senior Engineer at Airy Software Technologies Private Limited
This is particularly evident when dealing with failed login attempts and determining true versus false positives.
Strategic Account Executive at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
UI improvements, a simplified dashboard, or an easier reporting workflow could further improve analyst productivity.
Cyber Security Engineer Ii (Vulnerability & Threat Management) at FICO
I would appreciate more third-party integrations including Fortinet and others.
Team Lead SOC at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
 

Setup Cost

Enterprise buyers report mixed experiences with Amazon CloudWatch pricing, ranging from affordable to expensive, depending on usage and integration.
Devo offers transparent pricing per gigabyte, with potential metadata charges, including 400-day storage and additional feature benefits.
Overall, the pricing of Amazon CloudWatch is very expensive.
founder, ceo at Techrev Solutions Pvt Ltd
Amazon CloudWatch charges more for custom metrics as well as for changes in the timeline.
Digital Services & Engagement Senior Manager at AXA
It was very easy to set up because it is built into AWS and does not require separate licensing, being billed based on usage.
Senior Engineer at Airy Software Technologies Private Limited
The pricing of the product is reasonable if we compare it with other Gartner leading products like Splunk, LogRhythm, Microsoft Sentinel, Google SecOps.
Team Lead SOC at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
 

Valuable Features

Amazon CloudWatch offers real-time monitoring, comprehensive logging, AWS integration, and analytics with cost-effectiveness and detailed data insights.
Devo impresses with real-time analytics, intuitive UI, customization, advanced alerting, cloud-native architecture, and 400 days of data retention.
We can quickly fix issues at the point of occurrence, and real-time metrics for microservices provide centralized logging and automated alerts that enable fast incident detection, quicker troubleshooting, and better application reliability.
Senior Engineer at Airy Software Technologies Private Limited
Amazon CloudWatch allows me to set up and view even historical logs, which is one of the features I find valuable.
Digital Services & Engagement Senior Manager at AXA
If there is a CPU spike or system issues, we set alarms to notify us if the system is going down or not reachable.
Infrastructure Lead at Danat Fz LLC
When they see a spike in a line chart for a failed login, which could be a true or false attempt, they can click that spike, and a table widget on the same active board instantly populates with raw logs of data for those specific failed logins.
Strategic Account Executive at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
When the analyst uses queries to search, it pulls the data quickly, in a second, which aids us greatly with the investigation.
Cyber Security Engineer Ii (Vulnerability & Threat Management) at FICO
It utilizes 400 days of hot data, allowing queries to run very fast and yield results quicker than other tools in terms of security and SIEM capability.
Senior Cloud Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon CloudWatch
Ranking in Log Management
21st
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
49
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (25th), Cloud Monitoring Software (15th)
Devo
Ranking in Log Management
18th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
26
Ranking in other categories
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (18th), IT Operations Analytics (7th), AIOps (13th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Log Management category, the mindshare of Amazon CloudWatch is 1.4%, down from 2.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Devo is 1.4%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Log Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Devo1.4%
Amazon CloudWatch1.4%
Other97.2%
Log Management
 

Featured Reviews

Azam S M - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
Usama Khan - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Lead SOC at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Advanced threat hunting has improved SOC visibility and now supports faster incident response
Devo can improve in how its connectors enhance integration with third-party tools. Devo's architecture works by having you deploy a relay server in the data center of the client side and Devo SIEM is basically on the AWS cloud. There are specific ports which are enabled on the relay server, which are 514 and 13000, 13151, 152. However, when we talk about databases and custom integrations, there are not default ports in the relay server. No default ports are defined. For JDBC drivers, the port number is 1433, but it is not in the relay server. You have to add it manually. For Oracle RDBMS, the port is 1521, and it is also not there by default. I would appreciate more third-party integrations including Fortinet and others. Machine learning models can also be improved. Playbooks in the SOAR can also be improved. Regarding playbooks for automation, we utilize playbooks for automation in SOAR for automated IOC blocking on a firewall, on a web application firewall, on DNS security, etc. The only option for us to run the playbook is to schedule the job for it. However, if I want to manually run the playbook, there is no option for doing so. This needs improvement.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Transportation Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Construction Company
10%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business17
Midsize Enterprise8
Large Enterprise26
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business10
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise12
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Amazon CloudWatch?
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 visual...
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 ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Devo?
The pricing of the product is reasonable if we compare it with other Gartner leading products like Splunk, LogRhythm, Microsoft Sentinel, Google SecOps. Its licensing model is basically on per-day ...
What needs improvement with Devo?
Devo can improve in how its connectors enhance integration with third-party tools. Devo's architecture works by having you deploy a relay server in the data center of the client side and Devo SIEM ...
What is your primary use case for Devo?
I am using Devo myself. Basically, I work at an MSSP, and we provide services to the organization for Security Operation Centers. In our Security Operation Center, we provide the service of SIEM vi...
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

AirAsia, Airbnb, Aircel, APUS, Avazu, Casa & Video, Futbol Club Barcelona (FCBarcelona), National Taiwan University, redBus
United States Air Force, Rubrik, SentinelOne, Critical Start, NHL, Panda Security, Telefonica, CaixaBank, OpenText, IGT, OneMain Financial, SurveyMonkey, FanDuel, H&R Block, Ulta Beauty, Manulife, Moneylion, Chime Bank, Magna International, American Express Global Business Travel
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon CloudWatch vs. Devo and other solutions. Updated: August 2026.
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