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Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon CloudWatch is well suited for anyone that's using AWS and wants to see into their data, their traffic, or their system health. It's the eyes and ears of AWS. It really is best for any scenario where you are hosting infrastructure with AWS and want to keep an eye on it

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Computer Software Company, 51-200 employeesCA Wily CEM
CA Wily is well suited for monitoring the load balanced application nodes and determine their main performance bottlenecks like if problem exists in heap or in some connection issues. But I think when it comes to providing the entire report of the application, it is less appropriate as there is no way to create the entire report of the test for all the counters monitored. Also there is no way to detect some issues based on the system configuration.
Research Assistant
University of San FranciscoHigher Education, 1001-5000 employees
Feature Rating Comparison
Application Performance Management
Amazon CloudWatch
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CA Wily CEM
6.9
Application monitoring
Amazon CloudWatch
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CA Wily CEM
8.0
Database monitoring
Amazon CloudWatch
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CA Wily CEM
5.0
Threshold alerts
Amazon CloudWatch
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CA Wily CEM
6.0
Application performance management console
Amazon CloudWatch
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CA Wily CEM
8.0
Collaboration tools
Amazon CloudWatch
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CA Wily CEM
8.0
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications
Amazon CloudWatch
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CA Wily CEM
7.0
Application dependency mapping and thresholding
Amazon CloudWatch
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CA Wily CEM
2.0
Virtualization monitoring
Amazon CloudWatch
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CA Wily CEM
8.0
Server availability and performance monitoring
Amazon CloudWatch
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CA Wily CEM
8.0
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting
Amazon CloudWatch
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CA Wily CEM
8.0
IT Asset Discovery
Amazon CloudWatch
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CA Wily CEM
8.0
Pros
- Monitor
- Alert
- Visibility

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Computer Software Company, 51-200 employees- Heap Consumption in the Application servers and its traces throughout the test scenarios.
- Active number of database connections from application server to the database server.
- It provides the CPU usage in the JVM and also provides if all the instances of application server are having load while running the test on the load balancing server.
- Traces the active number of threads in each node of application server.
Research Assistant
University of San FranciscoHigher Education, 1001-5000 employees
Cons
- Amazon-only
- cumbersome compared to other solutions
- not 100% customizable.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Computer Software Company, 51-200 employees- To kill the thread explicitly in the server as per our need.
- To explicitly invoke the garbage collection so as to monitor the load as per our desire.
- Sampling frequency to be reduced to get more deterministic of some counters.
- Determine the first response byte from the server.
Research Assistant
University of San FranciscoHigher Education, 1001-5000 employees
Alternatives Considered
Amazon CloudWatch stacks up against the competition pretty well. I personally like more customizable tools like Sensu and Graphite/Grafana to alert and visualize data but there are some pieces of infrastructure and some data points you just can't get without using Amazon CloudWatch. I usually use a hybrid of tools

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Computer Software Company, 51-200 employeesCA Application Performance Management (APM) is the solution global brands trust to proactively identify and resolve performance and availability issues across physical, virtual, cloud, and mobile applications. CA APM is easy, proactive, intelligent and collaborative, so every user transaction becomes a loyalty-building interaction. CA Application Performance Management is an application lifecycle management solution for businesses of all sizes while we tried to use Dynatrace but as we get more familiar with CA Wily by the time we analyzed Dynatrace, we were interested to use it and see the results how it goes.
Research Assistant
University of San FranciscoHigher Education, 1001-5000 employees
Return on Investment
- Very positive ROI, we are able to pre-empt production issues via alerting
- CloudWatch is low cost and allows us to get enterprise level monitoring
- CloudWatch allows us to get visibility into all of our workloads and see how traffic is increasing or decreasing and make product level decisions

Verified User
Director in Engineering
Sports Company, 51-200 employees- One APM solution can manage application systems distributed across many data centers, ones you own, and ones that you do not. The APM solution simply follows your application around. If you use VMware vMotion to move a VM that contains a Java application, the APM solution simply adjusts.
- You benefit from the combination of the hosted back end and the Agile development practices of the APM vendor. If the APM vendor only has to enhance and maintain one copy of the back end, that back end can be evolved much more quickly than if the vendor has to ship software to customers and then support multiple back releases. So with an APM as a Service offering, the value of the offering simply improves over time at a faster rate than with on premise software.
- We do not have to install and maintain an application system and its associated middleware and databases in order to manage your applications. There is only one back end and it is managed by the vendor.
Research Assistant
University of San FranciscoHigher Education, 1001-5000 employees
Pricing Details
Amazon CloudWatch
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Additional Pricing Details
—CA Wily CEM
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No