We performed a comparison between Amazon CloudWatch and Splunk APM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Splunk, Datadog, Wazuh and others in Log Management."The product helps us collect and store various metrics to set test alarms."
"You can enable alarms and metrics, and it has robust integration with AWS services. You can also trigger events. For example, if the CPU utilization is above 80%, it can launch a new instance for you."
"What I found most valuable in Amazon CloudWatch is that it gives you detailed information, which I found helpful because it can even provide you with data for the past one minute, which is quite granular. That was what helped me most in terms of finding the root causes. Task automation is another valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch."
"The initial setup is easy."
"It is a stable solution...I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"Monitoring time and ensuring ease in it is the most valuable feature."
"It offers direct integrations with various storage providers, making it convenient to push logs from CloudWatch to these external platforms."
"Every time we get an alarm or have an incident, CloudWatch is always there. We use it not only for resources we've spun up in the cloud, but also for some of our on-premises resources."
"Detectors are a powerful feature."
"Splunk APM has helped us to standardize logging and monitoring procedures."
"The solution's service map feature allows us to have a holistic overview and to see quickly where the issues are."
"It is a good tool. It allows you to set alerts for application and infrastructure monitoring, and it allows you to create dashboards."
"The features are pretty much ready out of the box."
"The most valuable features are troubleshooting and optimizing application performance."
"The features are pretty much ready out of the box."
"Splunk's dashboards are great."
"The product should provide more features."
"CloudWatch doesn’t monitor disk throughput by default."
"When customers want to see the CPU or memory utilization there is a cost. This should be free to see the utilization."
"The dashboard and the UI could improve in Amazon CloudWatch. Additionally, they should focus on visibility inside the servers with AI and machine learning integrations. This would allow users who are using the solution to see what is happening within the system better."
"Right now, in relation to monitoring services, there are too many services and too many metrics per service."
"The technical support 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."
"I do not know whether or not CloudWatch can be integrated with on-prem services."
"I've been using the Splunk query language, and it can be a bit time-consuming to set up the queries I need."
"The licensing model is expensive. We need to monitor the amount of data ingested because the cost is based on the data collected."
"The UI enhancements could be a way to improve the solution in the future."
"Splunk APM's performance could be improved - at the moment, it's very slow and takes forever to give me what I want."
"Splunk APM should include a better correlation between resources and infrastructure monitoring."
"Primarily, the logs in Slunk APM can be challenging to navigate and comprehend, making it difficult to understand the details within each log. Compared to other tools like LogDNA, which are more intuitive in this aspect, the logs in Slunk APM can require more effort to understand."
"The cardinality is pretty low."
"They can improve the flow system and the keyword language. It has predefined keywords, but they can be improved."
Amazon CloudWatch is ranked 12th in Log Management with 40 reviews while Splunk APM is ranked 14th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 12 reviews. Amazon CloudWatch is rated 8.0, while Splunk APM is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Amazon CloudWatch writes "Instantaneous response when monitoring logs and KPIs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Splunk APM writes "Provides great visibility, analysis, and data telemetry". Amazon CloudWatch is most compared with Zabbix, Datadog, Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver), Dynatrace and SolarWinds NPM, whereas Splunk APM is most compared with Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence), Sentry, Elastic Observability, Monte Carlo and Grafana.
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