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Feature Set Ratings
Application Performance Management
Amazon CloudWatch
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A

3.7
DX Application Performance Management
37%
DX Application Performance Management (formerly CA APM) ranks higher in 12/12 features
DX Application Performance Management (formerly CA APM) ranks higher in 12/12 features
Application monitoring
N/A
0 Ratings

3.2
32%
6 Ratings
Database monitoring
N/A
0 Ratings

3.2
32%
4 Ratings
Threshold alerts
N/A
0 Ratings

3.2
32%
6 Ratings
Predictive capabilities
N/A
0 Ratings

4.0
40%
4 Ratings
Application performance management console
N/A
0 Ratings

3.2
32%
6 Ratings
Collaboration tools
N/A
0 Ratings

4.0
40%
3 Ratings
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications
N/A
0 Ratings

4.0
40%
5 Ratings
Application dependency mapping and thresholding
N/A
0 Ratings

4.0
40%
5 Ratings
Virtualization monitoring
N/A
0 Ratings

4.0
40%
4 Ratings
Server availability and performance monitoring
N/A
0 Ratings

3.2
32%
4 Ratings
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting
N/A
0 Ratings

4.0
40%
4 Ratings
IT Asset Discovery
N/A
0 Ratings

4.0
40%
2 Ratings
Attribute Ratings
- Amazon CloudWatch is rated higher in 2 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Support Rating
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
Amazon CloudWatch
89%
40 Ratings

3.2
DX Application Performance Management
32%
6 Ratings
Support Rating
8.0
Amazon CloudWatch
80%
14 Ratings

2.1
DX Application Performance Management
21%
3 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon CloudWatch
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.
Senior Systems Administrator
Bentek Inc.Computer Software, 51-200 employees
DX Application Performance Management
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
Pros
Amazon CloudWatch
- 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.
Senior Solutions Architect
InfostretchInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees
DX Application Performance Management
- Alerting which can be customized by the end user.
- Visualization of the metrics and data presented to provide a unique and attractive interface.
- Flexibility to manage actions and commands that we deem important for each application. The ability to define these and customize the metrics reported for each individual application is huge for us.

Verified User
Project Manager in Information Technology
Banking Company, 10,001+ employeesCons
Amazon CloudWatch
- 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.

Verified User
Professional in Finance and Accounting
Financial Services Company, 501-1000 employeesDX Application Performance Management
- We are facing challenges to meet RFP requirements in few areas where I would recommend CA to improve.
- We are facing challenges for non (java and dotnet application) which CA APM does not support. SAP is another solution where CA APM is not able to address our business requirement.

Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology
Banking Company, 10,001+ employeesPricing Details
Amazon CloudWatch
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
$0.0,012 per canary run
Amazon CloudWatch Editions & Modules
Edition
First 10,000 Metrics | $0.301 |
---|---|
Next 240,000 Metrics | $0.101 |
Next 750,000 Metrics | $0.051 |
Over 1,000,000 Metrics | $0.021 |
Dashboard | $3.002 |
Alarm - Standard Resolution (60 Sec) | $0.103 |
Alarm - High Resolution (10 Sec) | $0.303 |
Alarm - Composite | $0.504 |
Logs - Collect (Data Ingestion) | $0.505 |
Logs - Store (Archival) | $0.035 |
Logs - Analyze (Logs Insights queries) | $0.0056 |
Events - Custom | $1.007 |
Events - Cross-account | $1.007 |
Contributor Insights | $0.508 |
Contributor Insights - Matched Log Events | $0.029 |
Canaries | $0.001210 |
CloudWatch Evidently - Events | $511 |
CloudWatch Evidently - Analysis Units | $7.5012 |
CloudWatch RUM | $113 |
- per month
- per month per dashboard
- per month per alarm metric
- per month per alarm
- per GB
- per GB of data scanned
- per million events
- per month per rule
- per month per one million log events that match the rule
- per canary run
- per 1 million events
- per 1 million analysis units
- per 100k events
Additional Pricing Details
With 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.DX Application Performance Management
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—DX Application Performance Management Editions & Modules
—
Additional Pricing Details
—Support Rating
Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon CloudWatch 8.0
Based on 14 answers
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.
Lead Consultant - Technology
VirtusaComputer Software, 10,001+ employees
DX Application Performance Management
DX Application Performance Management 2.1
Based on 3 answers
We have never received any support from CA on this product
Senior Performance Engineer
FiservFinancial Services, 10,001+ employees
Alternatives Considered
Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon CloudWatch is efficient, reliable and has a high speed response as compared to its competitors and it maximizes an application's life at the same time giving you the best load balance and storage, the services that Amazon CloudWatch provides are way better and cheaper for the prices attached to them.
Network Engineer
JohannesburgInformation Technology & Services, 5001-10,000 employees
DX Application Performance Management
We only have 1 application using DX APM, while most of other applications are instrumented using Dynatrace. Dynatrace provides a better monitoring and instrumentation for applications. The required effort to setup monitoring capability using DX APM is way more work compared to Dynatrace, also the amount of KPIs offered from Dynatrace is more than DX APM.

Verified User
Technician in Information Technology
Banking Company, 10,001+ employeesReturn on Investment
Amazon CloudWatch
- 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.
Founder
finbox.ioInternet, 1-10 employees
DX Application Performance Management
- Introscope is deeply utilized within the organization. However, CEM and Team Center not as much. Those that use one piece don't generally use the others. Partially because of the curve in learning how to use the consoles effectively.
- reporting is pretty well configured and easy to setup if you know how to use the tools. So this can be easy to use and takes less time to configure for the different groups within the organization.
Lead Monitoring Engineer
Cambia Health SolutionsHealth, Wellness and Fitness, 5001-10,000 employees