AlertBot Website Monitoring vs. Amazon CloudWatch

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AlertBot Website Monitoring
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
AlertBot provides availability and performance real browser monitoring from an end user perspective.
$17.95
Per Month [Unlimited Users]
Amazon CloudWatch
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Amazon CloudWatch is a native AWS monitoring tool for AWS programs. It provides data collection and resource monitoring capabilities.
$0
per canary run
Pricing
AlertBot Website MonitoringAmazon CloudWatch
Editions & Modules
Website Monitoring
$17.95
Per Month [Unlimited Users]
Mobile Monitoring
$29.95
Per Month [Unlimited Users]
Web Transaction Monitoring
$99.95
Per Month [Unlimited Users]
Canaries
$0.0012
per canary run
Logs - Analyze (Logs Insights queries)
$0.005
per GB of data scanned
Over 1,000,000 Metrics
$0.02
per month
Contributor Insights - Matched Log Events
$0.02
per month per one million log events that match the rule
Logs - Store (Archival)
$0.03
per GB
Next 750,000 Metrics
$0.05
per month
Next 240,000 Metrics
$0.10
per month
Alarm - Standard Resolution (60 Sec)
$0.10
per month per alarm metric
First 10,000 Metrics
$0.30
per month
Alarm - High Resolution (10 Sec)
$0.30
per month per alarm metric
Alarm - Composite
$0.50
per month per alarm
Logs - Collect (Data Ingestion)
$0.50
per GB
Contributor Insights
$0.50
per month per rule
Events - Custom
$1.00
per million events
Events - Cross-account
$1.00
per million events
CloudWatch RUM
$1
per 100k events
Dashboard
$3.00
per month per dashboard
CloudWatch Evidently - Events
$5
per 1 million events
CloudWatch Evidently - Analysis Units
$7.50
per 1 million analysis units
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AlertBot Website MonitoringAmazon CloudWatch
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsWith Amazon CloudWatch, there is no up-front commitment or minimum fee; you simply pay for what you use. You will be charged at the end of the month for your usage.
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Community Pulse
AlertBot Website MonitoringAmazon CloudWatch
Top Pros
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Features
AlertBot Website MonitoringAmazon CloudWatch
Monitoring Tasks
Comparison of Monitoring Tasks features of Product A and Product B
AlertBot Website Monitoring
5.0
2 Ratings
46% below category average
Amazon CloudWatch
-
Ratings
Remote monitoring5.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Network device monitoring5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple Server Monitoring5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-device monitoring5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated alerts and notifications5.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Management Tasks
Comparison of Management Tasks features of Product A and Product B
AlertBot Website Monitoring
5.0
1 Ratings
39% below category average
Amazon CloudWatch
-
Ratings
Patch Management5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Service configuration management5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Software and hardware inventory5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Policy-based automation5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting
Comparison of Reporting features of Product A and Product B
AlertBot Website Monitoring
5.0
2 Ratings
41% below category average
Amazon CloudWatch
-
Ratings
Performance data reports5.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable reporting5.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Data visualization5.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Risk analysis5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
AlertBot Website Monitoring
5.0
1 Ratings
28% below category average
Amazon CloudWatch
-
Ratings
Data backup and recovery5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Antivirus and malware management5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Administrator access control5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
AlertBot Website MonitoringAmazon CloudWatch
Likelihood to Recommend
5.1
(2 ratings)
8.5
(38 ratings)
Support Rating
6.0
(1 ratings)
8.4
(8 ratings)
User Testimonials
AlertBot Website MonitoringAmazon CloudWatch
Likelihood to Recommend
AlertBot
It is well suited for a business that wants simplistic web monitoring of their websites. It does a great job of alerting depending on how you fine-tune the timers.
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Amazon AWS
Cloud watch is great and essential if you decide to invest in AWS and have any need to monitor the health of all aspects of your VPC resources, or at the organizational level (multiple accounts). Another benefit of the service is constant upgrades at no additional costs; the software evolves to develop modules and interface improvements. For first-time users in AWS, this is going to take a bit to understand, so the learning curve to this metrics environment can seem overwhelming at first glance/use.
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Pros
AlertBot
  • Domain monitoring.
  • Page checking.
  • Monitor different parts.
  • SSL monitoring.
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Amazon AWS
  • It provides lot many out of the box dashboard to observe the health and usage of your cloud deployments. Few examples are CPU usage, Disk read/write, Network in/out etc.
  • It is possible to stream CloudWatch log data to Amazon Elasticsearch to process them almost real time.
  • If you have setup your code pipeline and wants to see the status, CloudWatch really helps. It can trigger lambda function when certain cloudWatch event happens and lambda can store the data to S3 or Athena which Quicksight can represent.
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Cons
AlertBot
  • Give more granular logs.
  • Easier web GUI that's more user intuitive.
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Amazon AWS
  • Memory metrics on EC2 are not available on CloudWatch. Depending on workloads if we need visibility on memory metrics we use Solarwinds Orion with the agent installed. For scalable workloads, this involves customization of images being used.
  • Visualization out of the box. But this can easily be addressed with other solutions such as Grafana.
  • By design, this is only used for AWS workloads so depending on your environment cannot be used as an all in one solution for your monitoring.
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Support Rating
AlertBot
Descent product just doesn't have many advanced features that I know of.
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Amazon AWS
Support is effective, and we were able to get any problems that we couldn't get solved through community discussion forums solved for us by the AWS support team. For example, we were assisted in one instance where we were not sure about the best metrics to use in order to optimize an auto-scaling group on EC2. The support team was able to look at our metrics and give a useful recommendation on which metrics to use.
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Alternatives Considered
AlertBot
As I have reviewed previously. It offers more positive and friendly stuff when it comes to its application. It doesn't redirect visitors elsewhere and also gives updates when the website is being tampered or hacked. Even though there is a delay on updates but the good thing is, it suggest solutions to every incident.
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Amazon AWS
I believe that CloudWatch is a better solution to use with AWS services and resources in terms of cost and ease of integration with AWS infrastructure services. But keep in mind that Elasticsearch is better at aggregating application-level metrics. We chose CloudWatch because of its capabilities to integrate and monitor AWS services in almost real-time.
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Return on Investment
AlertBot
  • It needs a large capital.
  • ROI is good.
  • Fast ROI.
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Amazon AWS
  • We were able to set up log streaming, retention, and simple downtime alerts within a few hours, having no prior experience with CloudWatch, freeing up our engineers to focus on more important business goals.
  • CloudWatch log groups have made it relatively easy to detect and diagnose issues in production by allowing us to aggregate logs across servers, correlate failures, isolate misbehaving servers, etc. Thanks to CloudWatch, we are generally able to identify, understand and mitigate most production fires within 10-15 minutes.
  • Choosing CloudWatch to manage log aggregation has saved us quite a bit of time and money over the past year. Generally, 3rd-party log aggregation solutions tend to get quite expensive unless you self-host, in which case you typically need to spend a fair amount of time setting up, maintaining, and monitoring these services.
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