We performed a comparison between Amazon CloudWatch and NetWitness Platform 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 solution offers very detailed metrics for their services."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is intrusion prevention."
"The product can be integrated with AWS very easily."
"CloudWatch immediately hooks up and connects to the KPIs and all the metrics."
"Amazon CloudWatch's best feature stems from its ability to monitor app performance."
"Amazon CloudWatch is a cheap and easy-to-use solution."
"It is a robust analytical tool and it goes beyond mere functionality and extends into the realm of providing comprehensive insights."
"We have found the pricing to be reasonable."
"The most valuable features are its ingestion of logs and raising of alerts based on those logs."
"Setting up NetWitness is straightforward. There are multiple connectors, including standard and specialized connectors. One purpose of the connectors is the enhanced capability integrate the custom applications. NetWitness comes with E6 appliances and application images that we use for the initial configurations and for the OS stack information. From there, you can consider the correlation rules, integrate the different log sources, and easily create correlation rules and backlog reports."
"The product's initial setup phase was not at all difficult."
"The most valuable feature is that we can create our own connectors for any application, and NetWitness provides the training and tools to do it."
"The most valuable features are the threat prediction and network forensics."
"The newer 11.5 version that my team is using has found it to have good mapping."
"Performance and reporting are very good."
"The product has a user-friendly interface and a valuable feature for threat intelligence integration."
"There is room for improvement in terms of stability."
"Incorporating a straightforward method or a plug-and-play solution for integrating these databases with our systems, facilitating smooth data transfer, and enabling the creation of dashboards for monitoring and analysis would be beneficial."
"The solution's auto-scaling could be improved."
"The product’s documentation must be improved."
"There's a learning curve with Amazon CloudWatch since we have to learn to write the queries to extract the keys and logs."
"Right now, in relation to monitoring services, there are too many services and too many metrics per service."
"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."
"RSA NetWitness Logs and Packets can improve the threat level aspect, it is lacking compared to other solutions. Whenever any hacking activity or any other threat factor occurred they used to provide the coverages very fast when comparing RSA NetWitness Logs and Packets. I heard the other three solutions, from a discussion with my team members who had experience in other solutions, they used to say that. Whenever any issues happened across the globe RSA NetWitness Logs and Packets are a little bit slow improving those detection mechanisms."
"Lots of competing products have vulnerability protection built into their products, and this solution would be improved by including that support."
"The user interface is a little bit difficult for new users and it needs to be improved."
"Its technical support could be better."
"Security needs improvement."
"The solution should have more integration capabilities with different platforms."
"We have encountered issues with unresolved crashes."
"Sometimes, it gives me static when integrating Windows-based systems. It should produce a precise log of sorts as to where the problem is. For example, a few days ago because of the McAfee application firewall, I couldn't get access to the particular Windows machine. So, my team and I had to figure out by ourselves that there was a virus responsible for the obstacle. This solution should trigger a meaningful log or message indicating the reason the user or implementer can't get into the machine."
Amazon CloudWatch is ranked 12th in Log Management with 40 reviews while NetWitness Platform is ranked 19th in Log Management with 36 reviews. Amazon CloudWatch is rated 8.0, while NetWitness Platform is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Amazon CloudWatch writes "Instantaneous response when monitoring logs and KPIs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetWitness Platform writes "Can find out if there is lateral movement, but integration and workflow need improvement". Amazon CloudWatch is most compared with Zabbix, Datadog, Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver), Dynatrace and SolarWinds NPM, whereas NetWitness Platform is most compared with Splunk Enterprise Security, RSA enVision, IBM Security QRadar, Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Microsoft Sentinel. See our Amazon CloudWatch vs. NetWitness Platform report.
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