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AWS Auto Scaling vs Chronosphere comparison

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Categories and Ranking

AWS Auto Scaling
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
42nd
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
22
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Chronosphere
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
35th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (33rd), AIOps (21st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of AWS Auto Scaling is 0.5%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Chronosphere is 0.7%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Chronosphere0.7%
AWS Auto Scaling0.5%
Other98.8%
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
 

Featured Reviews

Ishaka Michael Efe - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer Intern at HNG Tech
Automation has simplified traffic management and improved workload efficiency
I'm not really sure what improvements I would want to see in AWS Auto Scaling because I haven't really used it extensively or explored most of it. To the extent that I've used it so far, I think it is very good. I can't really say for certain what should be improved because I haven't really explored it a lot. However, what I've been using it for has been very good. If there could be training for AWS Auto Scaling, that would be fine. If you could add more training on how to use it correctly and on the functions that I haven't used before or some people have not really used before, that would help. If there could be more documentation and training on it, that would be beneficial.
Karthik Doreswamy - PeerSpot reviewer
Dev Ops Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Centralized monitoring has unified alerts and dashboards for critical cloud applications
We can improve a bit of UI aspects. The UI could be made more user friendly. Sometimes when identifying the specific logs patterns and identifying what metrics and what logs are coming in, going to a specific log explorer and finding it there is a little difficult. It would be very useful if we could group according to projects and have that UI a little more user friendly. The user interface part was a bit confusing in the beginning. To make it better, I believe we would need some more open sourced or freely available courses on Chronosphere which would help us understand the platform a bit more. The team provides detailed walkthroughs whenever you get into that. However, it would be better if we could have proper video sessions or documentation which would help us understand the tool a bit more.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The tool's most valuable feature is vertical auto-scaling, which is easy to use. However, most companies now prefer horizontal scaling. I set up the health check integration to monitor CPU usage. When it reaches seventy percent, it sends me an email notification."
"It can scale."
"The health check integration feature ensures that the instances are healthy and capable of absorbing traffic, thus serving their purpose effectively."
"The good thing about Autoscaling is that it provides the capacity to minimize downtime. So, it gives you the assurance of stability and robustness within your system."
"It is a stable platform."
"When a lot of traffic comes into our organization, the product scales our instances based on our environment’s requirements."
"I like the graphs provided by the tool."
"The automation aspect where you can automate it to whatever you want is what I value the most about Auto Scaling."
"Chronosphere has impacted my organization positively as for starters, we brought down the cost drastically since we completely moved to Chronosphere."
"Integrating Chronosphere was pretty much easy coming from an open source tool and it helped us to streamline our monitoring and alerting setup across our organization, which directly impacted on the streamlining of the process as well as reducing errors and also keeping our environment uptime to a greater extent by those alerts and quick responses."
"The alerting features are good"
 

Cons

"In comparison to other public clouds, the product is costly."
"The product’s pricing needs improvement."
"The setup can be a bit complex in some situations."
"The only area of improvement is the speed at which servers are launched. When cleaning up to six servers at a time, it can take up to 15 to 20 minutes to launch new servers."
"AWS Auto Scaling's documentation could be better."
"It is sometimes very critical to deploy on AWS since some servers are already running in the background. There are challenges for employees on how to deploy at a given time."
"The tool must include AI features."
"If there could be training for AWS Auto Scaling, that would be fine. If you could add more training on how to use it correctly and on the functions that I haven't used before or some people have not really used before, that would help."
"Sometimes when identifying the specific logs patterns and identifying what metrics and what logs are coming in, going to a specific log explorer and finding it there is a little difficult."
"It's not easy for everyone."
"In logging, I would prefer if Chronosphere could do something in the way of a dictionary or a JSON lookup kind of logging, which would be much easier in terms of directly searching for a particular keyword rather than a string match."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing is good. I have not had any customers that have complained about the price."
"The product is expensive."
"AWS Auto Scaling is a cheap solution."
"The product has moderate pricing."
"AWS Auto Scaling is a pay-per-use and pay-as-you-use service."
"AWS Auto Scaling's price is high."
"AWS Auto Scaling is an expensive solution."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
15%
Outsourcing Company
14%
Educational Organization
11%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Construction Company
12%
Transportation Company
12%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business13
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise12
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AWS Auto Scaling?
I'm not sure about the pricing aspect of AWS Auto Scaling or the cost of it.
What needs improvement with AWS Auto Scaling?
AWS Auto Scaling can be improved in many ways, such as providing better visibility into scaling decisions and clarifying why exactly scaling happens. Sometimes, I am not sure why scaling occurs. Ea...
What is your primary use case for AWS Auto Scaling?
My main use case for AWS Auto Scaling is automatically scaling EC2 instances behind a load balancer based on traffic, CPU, and memory usage, as well as custom CloudWatch metrics. I also use it with...
What needs improvement with Chronosphere?
In logging, I would prefer if Chronosphere could do something in the way of a dictionary or a JSON lookup kind of logging, which would be much easier in terms of directly searching for a particular...
What is your primary use case for Chronosphere?
My main use case for Chronosphere is logging, metrics, traceability, and raising alerts. A specific example of how I use Chronosphere for logging metrics or raising alerts is that we had a free int...
What advice do you have for others considering Chronosphere?
My advice to others looking into using Chronosphere is to go ahead for it. I gave Chronosphere a rating of 8 out of 10.
 

Also Known As

AWS Auto-Scaling
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Sample Customers

Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
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