Amazon CloudWatch vs. SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Comparison


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About Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and observability service built for DevOps engineers, developers, site reliability engineers (SREs), and IT managers. CloudWatch provides you with data and actionable insights to monitor your applications, respond to system-wide performance changes, optimize resource utilization, and get a unified view of operational health. CloudWatch collects monitoring and operational data in the form of logs, metrics, and events, providing you with a unified view of AWS resources, applications, and services that run on AWS and on-premises servers. You can use CloudWatch to detect anomalous behavior in your environments, set alarms, visualize logs and metrics side by side, take automated actions, troubleshoot issues, and discover insights to keep your applications. CloudWatch alarms watch your metric values against thresholds that you specify or that it creates using ML models to detect anomalous behavior.	About SolarWinds® Server & Application Monitor (SAM) is designed to monitor your applications and their supporting infrastructure, whether running on-premises, in the cloud, or in a hybrid environment. Don’t let slow applications and downtime impact your end users and business services. Pinpoint the root cause of application issues across various layers of the IT stack. Automatically discover your application’s environment and start monitoring, typically in about an hour. No professional services or consultation needed.
Platforms Supported Windows Mac Linux Cloud On-Premises iPhone iPad Android Chromebook	Platforms Supported Windows Mac Linux Cloud On-Premises iPhone iPad Android Chromebook
Audience Organizations that use AWS searching for a tool to manage their resources and applications	Audience System admin, IT admin, IT generalist system engineer, SQL admin, Exchange admin, Windows admin
Support Phone Support 24/7 Live Support Online	Support Phone Support 24/7 Live Support Online
API Offers API	API Offers API
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Pricing No information available. Free Version Free Trial	Pricing Starts at $1,567 Free Version Free Trial
Reviews/Ratings Overall 4.3 / 5 ease 4.3 / 5 features 5.0 / 5 design 4.7 / 5 support 4.0 / 5 Read all reviews	Reviews/Ratings Overall 5.0 / 5 ease 5.0 / 5 features 5.0 / 5 design 5.0 / 5 support 5.0 / 5 Read all reviews
Pros & Cons from Real Users Pros When dealing with such a large web system it's incredibly helpful to have CloudWatch doing a lot of the hard work for you and providing the valuable data and actionable items needed. Easily manages logs period. Easy to install and set up. Time and money saving. Great dashboard customization options to add metrics. Easy implementation. Real time monitoring. Alarms based on custom triggers. Easy integration with AWS Services like SNS or Lambda. Schedule events. Cost-effective - only pay for what you use. Cons I have found that the support help for this management service is slow to process questions and doesn't have many experts on the team to provide answers to the questions that arise. It works only on Amazon affiliated service otherwise is a good tool to have and better than third party software. Needs to mature into a standalone app which can be integrated with other clouds platforms or tools.	Pros & Cons from Real Users Pros Here are the things I liked about the Server and application monitor. * To Monitor server capacity and current load. It helps to get the idea of required server capacity needed * Resource management. * Multiple servers can be monitored from the same screen. Cons * Overall it's an outstanding platform. No negative experience.
Training Documentation Webinars Live Online In Person	Training Documentation Webinars Live Online In Person
Company Information Amazon Founded: 1994 United States aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/	Company Information SolarWinds Founded: 2000 United States www.solarwinds.com/server-application-monitor
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Categories Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Automated Testing Cloud Cost Management Cloud Management Cloud Monitoring DevOps IT Infrastructure Monitoring Observability System Monitoring Vulnerability Management Website Monitoring Workload Automation	Categories Application Dependency Mapping Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Container Monitoring DNS Monitoring Hardware Monitoring IT Infrastructure Monitoring IT Management Server Management Server Monitoring System Monitoring
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Features Baseline Manager Diagnostic Tools Full Transaction Diagnostics Performance Control Resource Management Root-Cause Diagnosis Server Performance Trace Individual Transactions System Monitoring Features Alerts / Notifications Antivirus Management Data Backup / Recovery Device Monitoring Inventory Management Patch Management Policy-based Automation Remote Monitoring Reporting / Analytics Risk Analysis Server Monitoring Service Configuration Management Show More Features Automated Testing Features Hierarchical View Move & Copy Parameterized Testing Requirements-Based Testing Security Testing Supports Parallel Execution Test Script Reviews Unicode Compliance Cloud Management Features Access Control Billing & Provisioning Capacity Analytics Cost Management Demand Monitoring Multi-Cloud Management Performance Analytics SLA Management Supply Monitoring Workflow Approval DevOps Features Approval Workflow Dashboard KPIs Policy Management Portfolio Management Prioritization Release Management Timeline Management Troubleshooting Reports Vulnerability Management Features Asset Discovery Asset Tagging Network Scanning Patch Management Policy Management Prioritization Risk Management Vulnerability Assessment Web Scanning Website Monitoring Features Availability Testing Event Logs Event-Based Notifications FTP Monitoring Mail Server Monitoring Maintenance Scheduling Performance Metrics Real Time Monitoring Transaction Monitoring Uptime Reporting Workload Automation Features Alerts / Notifications Audit Trails Business Process Management Cross-Platform Scheduling Dashboard Data Analysis / Visualization Event-Triggers Load Balancing Resource-Based Scheduling Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Workflow Foundation Support	Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Features Baseline Manager Diagnostic Tools Full Transaction Diagnostics Performance Control Resource Management Root-Cause Diagnosis Server Performance Trace Individual Transactions IT Infrastructure Monitoring Features Alerts / Notifications Application Monitoring Bandwidth Monitoring Capacity Planning Configuration Change Management Data Movement Monitoring Health Monitoring Multi-Platform Support Performance Monitoring Point-in-Time Visibility Reporting / Analytics Virtual Machine Monitoring System Monitoring Features Alerts / Notifications Antivirus Management Data Backup / Recovery Device Monitoring Inventory Management Patch Management Policy-based Automation Remote Monitoring Reporting / Analytics Risk Analysis Server Monitoring Service Configuration Management Show More Features IT Management Features Capacity Monitoring Compliance Management Event Logs Hardware Inventory IT Budgeting License Management Patch Management Remote Access Scheduling Software Inventory User Activity Monitoring Server Management Features CPU Monitoring Credential Management Database Servers Email Monitoring Event Logs History Tracking Patch Management Scheduling User Activity Monitoring Virtual Machine Monitoring
Integrations ASPIRE Health AWS Lambda AWS Personal Health Dashboard AWS Site-to-Site VPN AppSignal Gurucul IBM WebSphere Application Server Lenses Lola SQL Server Securaa Snow Commander SolarWinds Virtualization Manager Squareboat Spectrum Tessell TruEra Visual KPI Yotascale Zesty groundcover Show More Integrations View All 117 Integrations	Integrations ASPIRE Health AWS Lambda AWS Personal Health Dashboard AWS Site-to-Site VPN AppSignal Gurucul IBM WebSphere Application Server Lenses Lola SQL Server Securaa Snow Commander SolarWinds Virtualization Manager Squareboat Spectrum Tessell TruEra Visual KPI Yotascale Zesty groundcover Show More Integrations View All 18 Integrations
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