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Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon CloudWatch
Ideal for monitoring AWS services and workloads. We have several of our websites entirely hosted on AWS and we're able to get a Grafana dashboard of all the relevant metrics from CloudFront, S3, EC2, RDS, and Elastic Beanstalk. This can be set up within the hour or templated on your code for infrastructure (we do this with terraform & cloud formation). By design, it isn't suited for non-AWS workloads.

Verified User
Professional in Finance and Accounting
Financial Services Company, 501-1000 employeesHP BTO (formerly OpenView) Discontinued
HP Openview really helped us when we migrated our old SAP Data from IBM Platform to OpenText.
Datacenter Operation Engineer
Appnexus Inc.Medical Devices, 5001-10,000 employees
Pros
Amazon CloudWatch
- Managing log retention periods is very simple with CloudWatch, and can be configured on a per-group basis.
- Monitoring host performance is very easy when coupled with the CloudWatch Agent on an EC2 instance. A simple installation and configuration replaces an entire 3rd-party host monitoring stack.
- CloudWatch is flexible enough for not just host monitoring, but application monitoring as well. It's easy to pipe local logs up to CloudWatch and extract structured data in order to monitor and set alerts on custom app metrics.
Founder
finbox.ioInternet, 1-10 employees
HP BTO (formerly OpenView) Discontinued
- SAP Batch Job monitoring.
- File Systems
- Database Montioring
Datacenter Operation Engineer
Appnexus Inc.Medical Devices, 5001-10,000 employees
Cons
Amazon CloudWatch
- CloudWatch doesn't monitor things outside of the cloud, it's not what it is intended for.
- Billing is confusing as it bills on Dashboard, metrics called, custom metrics, etc. Hard to forecast the charge.
- Paradigm is confusing sometimes and difficult to learn.

Verified User
C-Level Executive in Information Technology
Retail Company, 1001-5000 employeesHP BTO (formerly OpenView) Discontinued
- Monitoring interface should be more user friendly.
Datacenter Operation Engineer
Appnexus Inc.Medical Devices, 5001-10,000 employees
Usability
Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon CloudWatch 7.0
Based on 2 answers
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.

Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Human Resources Company, 51-200 employeesHP BTO (formerly OpenView) Discontinued
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Support Rating
Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon CloudWatch 7.6
Based on 16 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
HP BTO (formerly OpenView) Discontinued
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Alternatives Considered
Amazon CloudWatch
I can only speak to how it's positively benefited my organization. The problem was that hosting in-house servers is no longer a cost-effective solution vs. containerization in the cloud. But once you rely on hosting servers in the cloud you need a tool to manage every aspect of that including log monitoring, resource utilization, and application performance. Amazon CloudWatch is exactly the tool you need.

Verified User
Employee in Engineering
Information Services Company, 1001-5000 employeesHP BTO (formerly OpenView) Discontinued
User friendly, easy to access and more detailed info during the monitoring.
Datacenter Operation Engineer
Appnexus Inc.Medical Devices, 5001-10,000 employees
Return on Investment
Amazon CloudWatch
- Scalability. Saving us cost when we can downgrade underperforming instances.
- Great monitoring and peace of mine without always having to check logs to any services failure.
- Support cost is high. It would be nicer if documentation would be easier to follow.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Computer Software Company, 51-200 employeesHP BTO (formerly OpenView) Discontinued
- Biggest support in maintaining 10,000 Linux servers.
Datacenter Operation Engineer
Appnexus Inc.Medical Devices, 5001-10,000 employees
Screenshots
Amazon CloudWatch
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—Pricing Details
Amazon CloudWatch
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 |
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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.HP BTO (formerly OpenView) Discontinued
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
HP BTO (formerly OpenView) Discontinued Editions & Modules
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