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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Amazon CloudWatch

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AAmazon CloudWatch is a native AWS monitoring tool for AWS programs. It provides data collection and resource monitoring capabilities.

    $0

    per canary run

    SpeedCurve

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ASpeedCurve measures the interplay between web design and web performance. They offer user experience monitoring tools that provide insight into what visitors are experiencing.

    $143

    per month

    Pricing
    Amazon CloudWatchSpeedCurve
    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
    Small
    $143
    per month 500K RUM page views & 5K Synthetic checks
    Medium
    $1050
    per month 5M RUM page views & 25K Synthetic checks
    Large
    $2,100
    per month 10M RUM page views & 50K Synthetic checks
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon CloudWatchSpeedCurve
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    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.20% discount for annual subscription.
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    Community Pulse
    Amazon CloudWatchSpeedCurve
    Considered Both Products
    Amazon AWS
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    SpeedCurve
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    18 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    18 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    17 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    15 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    17 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Amazon CloudWatchSpeedCurve
    Monitoring Tasks
    Comparison of Monitoring Tasks features of Amazon CloudWatch and SpeedCurve
    Feature
    Amazon CloudWatch
    -
    Ratings
    SpeedCurve
    7.5
    1 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Multi-device monitoring00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Automated alerts and notifications00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Reporting
    Comparison of Reporting features of Amazon CloudWatch and SpeedCurve
    Feature
    Amazon CloudWatch
    -
    Ratings
    SpeedCurve
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Performance data reports00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Data visualization00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Amazon CloudWatch and SpeedCurve
    Feature
    Amazon CloudWatch
    -
    Ratings
    SpeedCurve
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    22% above category average
    Data backup and recovery00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Amazon CloudWatchSpeedCurve
    Small Businesses
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Datadog
    Score8.4 out of 10
    ManageEngine ADAudit Plus
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    NetBrain Technologies
    Score9.2 out of 10
    ManageEngine Site24x7
    Score9.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Amazon CloudWatchSpeedCurve
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.7
    (40 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.4
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Amazon CloudWatchSpeedCurve
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    For out business we find that AWS Cloudwatch is good at providing real-time metrics for monitoring and analysing the performance and usage of our platform by customers. It is possible to create custom metrics from log events, such people adding items to a basket, checking out or abandoning their orders.
    Incentivized
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    SpeedCurve
    Website performance monitoring:
    • Setting performance targets and alerts
    • Investigating performance degradation (including data stored before the issue was detected)
    • Improving the team's performance awareness and knowledge
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • 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.
    Incentivized
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    SpeedCurve
    • Store performance checks
    • User interface is great to help analyse the data
    • Simple yet effective interface
    • Offer some insights and other tools to help make sense of the data
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • 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.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    SpeedCurve
    • The interface has some confusing points, for instance aggregation setting (percentiles, median) is misleading, and doesn't do anything in some cases
    • Some additional statistical tools would super charge the charts and alerts: moving average, some more useful trend lines
    • The performance charts are amazing to compare many values (from different pages, multiple metrics) and find correlations. But the charts are barely usable when many metrics are shown (one cannot tell a line from the other). A simple UI improvement there could supercharge this use case
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
    It's excellent at collecting logs. It's easy to set up. The viewing & querying part could be much better, though. The query syntax takes some time to get used to, & the examples are not helpful. Also, while being great, Log Insights requires manual picking of log streams to query across every time.
    Incentivized
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    SpeedCurve
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
    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.
    Incentivized
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    SpeedCurve
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    Grafana is definitely a lot better and flexible in comparison with Amazon CloudWatch for visualisation, as it offers much more options and is versatile. VictoriaMetrics and Prometheus are time-series databases which can do almost everything cloudwatch can do in a better and cheaper way. Integrating Grafana with them will make it more capable Elasticsearch for log retention and querying will surpass cloudwatch log monitoring in both performance and speed
    Incentivized
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    SpeedCurve
    SpeedCurve actually uses many of those standard tests, and stores the information from test runs indefinitely. This is the game changer.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • 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.
    Incentivized
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    SpeedCurve
    • Speedcurve facilitates and empowers performance improvements that lead the higher conversion rates, user engagement and ultimately GMV
    • Through it's interface and automation, Speed curve saves hundreds of hours in investigations around performance issues
    • By facilitating performance analysis and knowledge sharing, SpeedCurve allows our teams to be more performance-aware, preventing performance issues from even happening
    Incentivized
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    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