Amazon CloudWatch vs HP BTO (formerly OpenView) Discontinued

Amazon CloudWatch

CloudWatch is a great low-cost solution for infrastructure monitoring and alerting if you are an AWS customer. You basically get it for free and requires little setup. If you are not on AWS, you can't enjoy the benefits of CloudWatch, so if you are running multi-cloud, need to think about how you will monitor all of your resources and assets.

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Sports Company, 51-200 employees

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HP BTO (formerly OpenView) Discontinued

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

Infrastructure monitoring
Infrastructure alerting
Dashboarding

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Sports Company, 51-200 employees

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SAP Batch Job monitoring.
File Systems
Database Montioring

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Datacenter Operation Engineer

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

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Cons

Building cloudwatch dashboards can be cumbersome. You have to navigate through various screens to get the metrics you want to add.
Exporting alarm / alerting data is not available for further post-processing or analysis
You have to build alerts and alarms yourself. CloudWatch does not give you any recommendations, so you have to know what you're doing.

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Sports Company, 51-200 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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Alternatives Considered

CloudWatch's log search features are impoverished compared to PaperTrail's or Loggly's. However, CloudWatch aggregates logs from Lambda, ECS, API Gateway and more out-of-the-box. You do not need to manage anything. You do not need to worry about an errant logging configuration saturating your NAT's bandwidth. CloudWatch is not an APM like New Relic or Datadog, but it does provide some instrumentation. CloudWatch metrics for EC2 is most comparable to Nagios.

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Engineer in Engineering

Research Company, 11-50 employees

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

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Datacenter Operation Engineer

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

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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

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Sports Company, 51-200 employees

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Biggest support in maintaining 10,000 Linux servers.

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Datacenter Operation Engineer

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

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Pricing Details

Amazon CloudWatch

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

Additional Pricing Details

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HP BTO (formerly OpenView) Discontinued

General

Free Trial

—

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Additional Pricing Details

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Rating Summary

Amazon CloudWatch

7.9

HP BTO (formerly OpenView) Discontinued

8.0

Amazon CloudWatch vs HP BTO (formerly OpenView) Discontinued