Amazon CloudWatch vs HP BTO (formerly OpenView) Discontinued

Likelihood to Recommend

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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Rob Domenico

Senior Systems Administrator

Bentek Inc.Computer Software, 51-200 employees

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HP Openview really helped us when we migrated our old SAP Data from IBM Platform to OpenText.

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Deep Sengar

Datacenter Operation Engineer

Appnexus Inc.Medical Devices, 5001-10,000 employees

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Pros

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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Apurv Doshi

Senior Solutions Architect

InfostretchInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees

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SAP Batch Job monitoring.
File Systems
Database Montioring

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Deep Sengar

Datacenter Operation Engineer

Appnexus Inc.Medical Devices, 5001-10,000 employees

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Cons

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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Verified User

Professional in Finance and Accounting

Financial Services Company, 501-1000 employees

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Monitoring interface should be more user friendly.

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Deep Sengar

Datacenter Operation Engineer

Appnexus Inc.Medical Devices, 5001-10,000 employees

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Usability

Amazon CloudWatch 6.0

Based on 1 answer

The tool collects a great deal of data, and data that's not available many other places. But the data is hidden in obscure places, and the logs are hard to read and follow. The user interface could use a heavy rework, and several companies have made a business out of scraping the data and presenting it better.

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Verified User

Professional in Information Technology

Human Resources Company, 51-200 employees

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Support Rating

Amazon CloudWatch 7.4

Based on 15 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.

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Ramindu Deshapriya

Lead Consultant - Technology

VirtusaComputer Software, 10,001+ employees

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Alternatives Considered

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.

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muphulusi dzivhani

Network Engineer

JohannesburgInformation Technology & Services, 5001-10,000 employees

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User friendly, easy to access and more detailed info during the monitoring.

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Deep Sengar

Datacenter Operation Engineer

Appnexus Inc.Medical Devices, 5001-10,000 employees

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Return on Investment

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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Brian Dentino

Founder

finbox.ioInternet, 1-10 employees

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Biggest support in maintaining 10,000 Linux servers.

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Deep Sengar

Datacenter Operation Engineer

Appnexus Inc.Medical Devices, 5001-10,000 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

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

Per Metric

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.

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

HP BTO (formerly OpenView) Discontinued Editions & Modules

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Amazon CloudWatch vs HP BTO (formerly OpenView) Discontinued