Amazon CloudWatch vs. eG Enterprise

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon CloudWatch
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
Amazon CloudWatch is a native AWS monitoring tool for AWS programs. It provides data collection and resource monitoring capabilities.
$0
per canary run
eG Enterprise
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
eG Enterprise is a converged application and infrastructure monitoring solution that enables organizations to ensure peak performance of their business-critical applications and IT services. The vendor’s value proposition is that with eG Enterprise, users can monitor every layer and every tier of the IT infrastructure and connect performance insights across applications, user experience, business transactions, databases, servers, hypervisors, virtual desktops, storage and network devices, and…N/A
Pricing
Amazon CloudWatcheG Enterprise
Editions & Modules
Canaries
$0.0012
per canary run
Logs - Analyze (Logs Insights queries)
$0.005
per GB of data scanned
Over 1,000,000 Metrics
$0.02
per month
Contributor Insights - Matched Log Events
$0.02
per month per one million log events that match the rule
Logs - Store (Archival)
$0.03
per GB
Next 750,000 Metrics
$0.05
per month
Next 240,000 Metrics
$0.10
per month
Alarm - Standard Resolution (60 Sec)
$0.10
per month per alarm metric
First 10,000 Metrics
$0.30
per month
Alarm - High Resolution (10 Sec)
$0.30
per month per alarm metric
Alarm - Composite
$0.50
per month per alarm
Logs - Collect (Data Ingestion)
$0.50
per GB
Contributor Insights
$0.50
per month per rule
Events - Custom
$1.00
per million events
Events - Cross-account
$1.00
per million events
CloudWatch RUM
$1
per 100k events
Dashboard
$3.00
per month per dashboard
CloudWatch Evidently - Events
$5
per 1 million events
CloudWatch Evidently - Analysis Units
$7.50
per 1 million analysis units
No answers on this topic
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon CloudWatcheG Enterprise
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsWith 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.Please contact info@eginnovations.com to learn more about pricing.
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Amazon CloudWatcheG Enterprise
Features
Amazon CloudWatcheG Enterprise
Application Performance Management
Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
Amazon CloudWatch
-
Ratings
eG Enterprise
8.8
Ratings
14% above category average
Application monitoring00 Ratings9.50 Ratings
Database monitoring00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Threshold alerts00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Predictive capabilities00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Application performance management console00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Collaboration tools00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Application dependency mapping and thresholding00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Virtualization monitoring00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Server availability and performance monitoring00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Amazon CloudWatcheG Enterprise
Small Businesses
InfluxDB
InfluxDB
Score 8.8 out of 10
GitLab
GitLab
Score 8.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Sumo Logic
Sumo Logic
Score 9.4 out of 10
ManageEngine Site24x7
ManageEngine Site24x7
Score 9.8 out of 10
Enterprises
NetBrain Technologies
NetBrain Technologies
Score 9.2 out of 10
ManageEngine Site24x7
ManageEngine Site24x7
Score 9.8 out of 10
All AlternativesView all alternativesView all alternatives
User Ratings
Amazon CloudWatcheG Enterprise
Likelihood to Recommend
7.7
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Usability
7.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.4
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon CloudWatcheG Enterprise
Likelihood to Recommend
If you use any AWS services, CloudWatch is the natural choice to monitor & troubleshoot your workload. Thankfully, for most AWS services, CloudWatch is either built-in or very easy to set up. However, being proficient in browsing & tracking the log events would take some training & practice. Having some experienced people on the team would help immensely, especially in spreading the skill to the rest of the team.
Read full review
eG Enterprise has brimming monitoring potentiality; it monitors servers, applications, networks, and basically the entire infrastructure. It is a comprehensive and flexible monitoring tool with deep app diagnostic capabilities. It reports slowing down of apps and isolates the cause of the down trending. The tool is expensive but provides good value for money.
Read full review
Pros
  • 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.
Read full review
  • Provides extensive visibility beyond the performance of apps and the entire infrastructure.
  • The excellent diagnostic capacities allow us to drill down issues and find their root cause.
  • Good APM capabilities.
Read full review
Cons
  • 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.
Read full review
  • eG Enterprise supports only traditional Deployment Architecture on Desktop, Windows server and Linux server
  • Could be Improve in Integration like accepting data from different monitoring tools and perform the data analytics like deduplication correlation etc…
  • I am sure the product is excellent for Technologies monitoring like Citrix, SAP, VMware, Oracle, Nutanix and 0365, Competitive licensing can defiantly give edge
Read full review
Usability
Although the tool itself is easy to integrate and is readily available for use, it has its limitations. The key limitations of cloudwatch are with respect to cost incurred on log retention and log querying. While for key use cases this is sufficient, for more advanced use cases, Amazon CloudWatch doesn't work out. Also, obviously it is tightly coupled with AWS, which makes you look away if you need a single tool for all monitoring
Read full review
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
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.
Read full review
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
We use Cloudwatch for simpler monitoring, but these metrics and logs often feed into bigger ecosystems across our organization. The metrics and logs in Cloudwatch allow our developers quick and easy access to the data they need whilst easily integrating the same data into more prominent platforms for wider analysis, including Service desk support, SecOps, and ITOps monitoring within the organization.
Read full review
Its Lacking Synthetic monitoring of VDI user
transactions and also doesn’t comprehensively monitor the technologies like SharePoint, SAP, Exchange etc...
Read full review
Return on Investment
  • Positive for alarms and alert notifications once configured/customized.
  • Has upfront learning curve, and cost can increase as does the alarm activity and monitoring details you may require.
  • Cost-effective for any size organization keeping with AWS and utilizing its native tools is a savings in long-term ROI.
Read full review
  • Deep dive monitoring of VDI environment has defiantly helped to maintain the reliable VDI service for Citrix and VMware Horizon and avoid lot of tickets in my ITSM
  • Product is really good however I believe its bit expensive, eG should rethink on the license cost
Read full review
ScreenShots

Amazon CloudWatch Screenshots

Screenshot of How Amazon CloudWatch works - high-level overviewScreenshot of CloudWatch Application MonitoringScreenshot of CloudWatch ServiceLens and Contributor Insights - expedite resolution timeScreenshot of Improve Observability with Amazon CloudWatchScreenshot of Visual overview of Amazon CloudWatch

eG Enterprise Screenshots

Screenshot of Real User Monitoring DashboardScreenshot of Transaction Flow Map - Business Transaction TracingScreenshot of Built-in Application Monitoring Dashboards with Code-Level VisibilityScreenshot of Automated Infrastructure Dependency Mapping and Root Cause DiagnosisScreenshot of Self-Learning Automatic Baseline ThresholdsScreenshot of Out-of-the-Box Reports for Historical Performance Analysis, Capacity Forecasting and Right-Sizing