We performed a comparison between Amazon CloudWatch and NetCrunch 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."It's a very simple logging system."
"The tool's UI is good. One can scroll through the logs very easily."
"What my company likes best about Amazon CloudWatch is that it's on AWS. My team also likes it for its log feature. As the solution is on AWS, it also has good pricing and resource availability, plus it's what clients choose. My company also chose AWS for Forge ECS, and at the time, there was a need for the log features provided by Amazon CloudWatch, so it's the solution my team went with."
"The product can be integrated with AWS very easily."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is collecting the logs from Lambda."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The alarms are one thing I love about AWS CloudWatch. It has alerts that notify us when resource use is approaching the limit."
"CloudWatch immediately hooks up and connects to the KPIs and all the metrics."
"Reporting on NetCrunch is pretty good. It's very similar to SolarWinds. It's just a different interface. The majority of everything there was beneficial."
"The monitoring part and GUI are areas in Amazon CloudWatch that have shortcomings currently and can be considered for improvements in the future."
"I think something that can be improved are the alerts and alerting mechanism based on no rejects. We want to have it more flexible and that is one of the key things that is required."
"I do not know whether or not CloudWatch can be integrated with on-prem services."
"The graphical interface has room for improvement. CloudWatch only gives you a breakdown of what's wrong. However, it would be nice if it could automatically remedy the problems it identifies. You should be able to configure it so that when a specific condition arises, it will take a predefined action."
"There could be further enhancements through CloudWatch's partnerships."
"Better reporting is always something needed. That could be an answer to just about anything. But you always want better reporting, better dashboards, things that are just more dynamic and more accessible."
"Amazon CloudWatch needs improvement. The main thing is we have noticed missing logs."
"The product's configuration has some challenges. The solution needs to be more user-friendly."
"I didn't care for the role-based, permission-based options, which were not the best."
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Amazon CloudWatch is ranked 12th in Log Management with 40 reviews while NetCrunch is ranked 76th in Log Management. Amazon CloudWatch is rated 8.0, while NetCrunch is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Amazon CloudWatch writes "Instantaneous response when monitoring logs and KPIs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetCrunch writes "A network monitoring platform with a useful reporting feature, but permission-based options could be better". Amazon CloudWatch is most compared with Zabbix, Datadog, Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver), Dynatrace and SolarWinds NPM, whereas NetCrunch is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor and Fortinet FortiSIEM. See our Amazon CloudWatch vs. NetCrunch report.
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