Amazon CloudWatch vs Micro Focus SiteScope

• 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.

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• All the infrastructure monitoring things are preexisting and we don't need to set up anything additional when using HP Sitescope. We have monitors for ps, CPU, etc., for our application.
• HP Sitescope can also run the custom scripts in our servers and send an alert based on the output. For example, we are running one custom script with HP sitescope to monitor large size files and send an alert if they exceed the threshold.
• Sitescope will have logs as well which can then be forwarded to splunk to draw graphs in splunk for the dashboard. For example, ps is very expensive in splunk and it was disabled. So we are sending that stat from HP sitescope and have a splunk dashboard to show the memory of that process over time.

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• Its limitation on only Amazon resources.
• Cost is higher.
• Lack of ability to create graphs on distinct counts and histograms which can make it hard quickly identify specific IP addresses that have a high request volume in a certain period. We have worked around this but a feature on the dashboard would be nice.

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• The tool doesn't have much visibility for JavaScript heavy web pages for URL monitors.
• The Java version to run the tool has issues sometimes with running the application.
• The reporting function needs some improvement.

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• CloudWatch is liked by the IT guys, in that it makes their job easier. Whether that actually is a positive ROI is debatable. It doesn't seem like it.
• CloudWatch could have a positive ROI in the sense that IT professionals consider it an integral tool to streamline their management of IT resources.
• Cloud is not a positive ROI in the sense that it doesn't appear to have saved any money on the personnel or software side.

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• Checking processes using a ps command and other indexing steps is very expensive in splunk.
• Infrastructure monitoring is no more an issue for our company after getting HP sitescope.

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