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Attribute Ratings
- Amazon CloudWatch is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend
- N-able N-central is rated higher in 1 area: Support Rating
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
Amazon CloudWatch
89%
40 Ratings
6.7
N-able N-central
67%
19 Ratings
Likelihood to Renew
Amazon CloudWatch
N/A
0 Ratings
9.1
N-able N-central
91%
2 Ratings
Usability
Amazon CloudWatch
N/A
0 Ratings
9.1
N-able N-central
91%
3 Ratings
Support Rating
8.0
Amazon CloudWatch
80%
14 Ratings
8.7
N-able N-central
87%
14 Ratings
Implementation Rating
Amazon CloudWatch
N/A
0 Ratings
8.4
N-able N-central
84%
4 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
N-able N-central
N-Central would be most appropriate in a situation where an experienced admin would like a product that is as customizable as possible. The products allows for a lot of customization, but would be less appropriate in a situation where a less experienced admin is looking for a product that requires less set up.

Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 employeesPros
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
N-able N-central
- Remote tasks - entry-level techs can run basic tasks without physically touching a piece of equipment.
- Remote support - remote controlling user devices is easy and saves a lot of time with having to initiate a remote session.
- Management of devices, particularly patch management and anti-virus management - you can automatically approve and deploy patches and schedule automatic AV scans.
NOC Supervisor
One2One IncInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 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 employeesN-able N-central
- Expensive software
- The support team are terrible
- Sales team will promise the world to get you over the line
- Subscription management is tedious
- Old software with very little development and the support team will not provide any further information on this - no roadmap
- Integrations galore - but none of them are effective
IT Consultant
ITInformation Technology & Services, 11-50 employees
Pricing 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.N-able N-central
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—N-able N-central Editions & Modules
—
Additional Pricing Details
—Likelihood to Renew
Amazon CloudWatch
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
N-able N-central
N-able N-central 9.1
Based on 2 answers
Overall we have liked our solar winds experience, however, as our company has grown to support larger enterprises, this product does not have the functionality that our teams need in order to fully support them. The lack of granularity with backups and lack of ability to support nutanix environments is slowly drawing us into the use of other tools.

Verified User
Executive in Engineering
Computer & Network Security Company, 11-50 employeesUsability
Amazon CloudWatch
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
N-able N-central
N-able N-central 9.1
Based on 3 answers
The user interface is fairly straight forward, with logic groupings for objects. I did not deploy this software, but am one of the daily administrators. Once you get the correct agent package (Which can be a challenge) the integration into AD is not bad. The UI could be more customized, but that may have been a design choice.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 51-200 employeesSupport 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
N-able N-central
N-able N-central 8.7
Based on 14 answers
Every time we have reached out to SolarWinds they are quick to respond, even offering support chat 24/7. Their support team is great and works with you to find solutions to issues. They have taken items we had issues with before and used those to create updates so that the issue is handled better in the future.
Senior Consultant
Moser ConsultingInformation Technology and Services, 201-500 employees
Implementation Rating
Amazon CloudWatch
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
N-able N-central
N-able N-central 8.4
Based on 4 answers
Make sure if you your using a vm you follow the instructions for provisioning to the letter or it will be starting from square one
I.T. Manager
ET&TInformation Services, 11-50 employees
Alternatives 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
N-able N-central
SolarWinds N-central is on the more unique side of tools because it can do so many things, and do most of them quite well. For patching, it is much easier to use than SCCM. In terms of monitoring, it is not great out of the box and requires tweaking to take full advantage. Since it is agent-based, any time an agent fails to check in, it means that that device is effectively no longer being managed. It can take a great deal of effort to maintain and remediate agent issues.
It is a great tool to manage small to medium-sized environments, but would struggle to cover all the angles required in a larger enterprise setting.

Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 1001-5000 employeesReturn 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
N-able N-central
- Reduced time to manage and support servers and endpoints.
- Provides support dept with more accurate information to assess and resolve issues quicker and more efficiently.
- The subscription cost associated with N-central, to our clients has a good profit margin for us.
Managed Services Adminsitrator
Diversified Computer Resources, IncComputer Networking, 11-50 employees