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Feature Set Ratings
Application Performance Management
Amazon CloudWatch
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
8.1
Micro Focus SiteScope
81%
Micro Focus SiteScope (formerly HP SiteScope) ranks higher in 12/12 features
Micro Focus SiteScope (formerly HP SiteScope) ranks higher in 12/12 features
Application monitoring
N/A
0 Ratings
6.0
60%
6 Ratings
Database monitoring
N/A
0 Ratings
8.0
80%
5 Ratings
Threshold alerts
N/A
0 Ratings
8.8
88%
6 Ratings
Predictive capabilities
N/A
0 Ratings
7.8
78%
4 Ratings
Application performance management console
N/A
0 Ratings
7.9
79%
4 Ratings
Collaboration tools
N/A
0 Ratings
7.6
76%
4 Ratings
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications
N/A
0 Ratings
8.8
88%
6 Ratings
Application dependency mapping and thresholding
N/A
0 Ratings
8.8
88%
6 Ratings
Virtualization monitoring
N/A
0 Ratings
8.9
89%
5 Ratings
Server availability and performance monitoring
N/A
0 Ratings
8.8
88%
6 Ratings
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting
N/A
0 Ratings
8.8
88%
5 Ratings
IT Asset Discovery
N/A
0 Ratings
7.5
75%
5 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
7.0
Micro Focus SiteScope
70%
6 Ratings
Usability
Amazon CloudWatch
N/A
0 Ratings
8.0
Micro Focus SiteScope
80%
1 Rating
Support Rating
8.0
Amazon CloudWatch
80%
14 Ratings
6.0
Micro Focus SiteScope
60%
2 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
Micro Focus SiteScope
SiteScope is definitely well suited in an HP server environment. It is also well suited for virtual server environments. It is also well suited for those who are happy with email and text based message alerting.It may not be appropriate in other environments where monitoring physical components is critical. Because HP SiteScope does not monitor certain physical components, it does fall short of being able to be a "one stop shop solution" in regard to monitoring. It is not well suited for those looking for logic in how alerts are sent and cascade to other people or groups.
Systems Engineer
ScentAirMarketing and Advertising, 51-200 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
Micro Focus SiteScope
- Alerts can be configured as per business requirement.
- It can take remedial action, when defined for a particular situation.
- Severity, priority of tickets which are created upon a trigger can be well defined.
- The teams which need to be alerted can be configured in the tool itself, in case of any event.
Senior Analyst
AccentureInformation Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees
Cons
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 employeesMicro Focus SiteScope
- Sitescope is particularly used for infrastructure monitoring. Other kinds of monitors cannot be set using HP sitescope.
- Sitescope cannot have graphs like splunk which is why we have splunk as well which is an additional cost for the company.
- We can't have a direct regex operations on data inside HP sitescope. We need to have the logs placed as a single log and then do that.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Retail Company, 1001-5000 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 |
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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.Micro Focus SiteScope
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Micro Focus SiteScope Editions & Modules
—
Additional Pricing Details
—Usability
Amazon CloudWatch
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Micro Focus SiteScope
Micro Focus SiteScope 8.0
Based on 1 answer
Very straightforward and easy to use once you get past the short learning curve.
Systems Engineer
ScentAirMarketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees
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
Micro Focus SiteScope
Micro Focus SiteScope 6.0
Based on 2 answers
Can't really answer this. Setup was easy and no support has really been used at this point.

Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 10,001+ employeesAlternatives 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
Micro Focus SiteScope
SiteScope unified console is a powerful tool for operators to easily detect warnings and alerts grouped by its hierarchical organization with real-time status displaying continuously the whole health map.
Tools & Analytic Monitoring Leader
EntelTelecommunications, 5001-10,000 employees
Return 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
Micro Focus SiteScope
- Sitescope does exactly what it was purchased for. It may take some time to set it up but once its set up it is a rock solid product.
Senior System Engineer
Sandata TechnologiesHospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees