We performed a comparison between Amazon CloudWatch and Elastic Observability based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Log Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product can be integrated with AWS very easily."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is reliability."
"It's a very simple logging system."
"Monitoring time and ensuring ease in it is the most valuable feature."
"We can create events and alerts. We use the information to dive down into the infrastructure performance."
"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."
"Scheduling is a valuable feature."
"Our team finds it overall quite useful."
"It is a powerful tool that allows users to collect and transform logs as needed, enabling flexible visualization and analysis."
"The tool's most valuable feature is centralized logging. Elastic Common Search helps us to search for the logs across the organization."
"Elastic APM has plenty of features, such as the Elastic server for Kibana and many additional plugins. It's a comprehensive tool when used as a logging platform."
"The product has connectors to many services."
"I have built a mini business intelligence system based on Elastic Observability."
"The Elastic User Interface framework lets us do custom development when needed. You need to have some Javascript knowledge. We need that knowledge to develop new custom tests."
"Good design and easy to use once implemented."
"The solution has been stable in our usage."
"The dashboard of Amazon CloudWatch is not very customizable right now."
"The solution should provide human-readable metrics."
"For monitoring applications or for APM, CloudWatch has some limitations. You cannot monitor application performance from CloudWatch, and you have to go for a third-party tool."
"I would like to monitor inbound and outbound transfer. I would also like to control the traffic for load balancing."
"The solution's integration could be easier for laypersons."
"It is hard to configure; it is not a straightforward tool."
"The configuration capabilities could be better."
"There is room for improvement in terms of stability."
"There's a steep learning curve if you've never used this solution before."
"The cost must be made more transparent."
"Elastic Observability’s price could be improved."
"Elastic Observability is difficult to use. There are only three options for customization but this can be difficult for our use case. We do not have other options to choose the metrics shown, such as CPU or memory usage."
"They need more skills in the market. There are not enough skills in the market. It is not pervasive enough on the market, in my opinion. In other words, there isn't a big enough user base."
"The tool's scalability involves a more complex implementation process. It requires careful calculations to determine the number of nodes needed, the specifications of each node, and the configuration of hot, warm, and cold zones for data storage. Additionally, managing log retention policies adds further complexity. The solution's pricing also needs to be cheaper."
"If we had some pre-defined templates for observability that we could start using right away after deploying it – instead of having to build or to change some of the dashboards – that would be helpful."
"Elastic Observability needs to improve the retrieval of logs and metrics from all the instances."
Amazon CloudWatch is ranked 12th in Log Management with 40 reviews while Elastic Observability is ranked 13th in Log Management with 22 reviews. Amazon CloudWatch is rated 8.0, while Elastic Observability is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Amazon CloudWatch writes "Instantaneous response when monitoring logs and KPIs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Elastic Observability writes "The user interface framework lets us do custom development when needed. ". Amazon CloudWatch is most compared with Zabbix, Datadog, Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver), Dynatrace and Graylog, whereas Elastic Observability is most compared with Dynatrace, New Relic, AppDynamics, Azure Monitor and Sentry. See our Amazon CloudWatch vs. Elastic Observability report.
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