Amazon CloudWatch vs. SolarWinds Loggly

Amazon CloudWatch

SolarWinds Loggly

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Amazon CloudWatch	Score8.2 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
SolarWinds Loggly	Score5.1 out of 10	Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)	Loggly is a cloud-based log management service provider. It does not require the use of proprietary software agents to collect log data. The service uses open source technologies, including ElasticSearch, Apache Lucene 4 and Apache Kafka.	$79 per month/billed annually

Pricing

Amazon CloudWatch

SolarWinds Loggly

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

Standard: $79
per month/billed annually
Pro: $159
per month/billed annually
Enterprise: $279
per month/billed annually

Pricing Offerings
Amazon CloudWatch	SolarWinds Loggly
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	Yes

No setup fee

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.

Free trial for Standard and Pro plans for 14 days with all features.

Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Amazon CloudWatch	SolarWinds Loggly
Considered Both Products	Amazon AWS Verified User Chose Amazon CloudWatch CloudWatch's log search features are impoverished compared to PaperTrail's or Loggly's. However, CloudWatch aggregates logs from Lambda, ECS, API Gateway and more out-of-the-box. You do not need to manage anything. You do not need to worry about an errant logging configuration … Incentivized Helpful? Brian Dentino Founder in Engineering at finbox.io (Internet, 1-10 employees) Chose Amazon CloudWatch We found that CloudWatch provides great value in terms of cost and maintenance time. It is cheap and requires virtually 0 upkeep. Of the other solutions we evaluated, Loggly and New Relic get quite expensive when you reach the volume of log data that we are processing even … Incentivized Helpful?	SolarWinds Ciaran Kendellen CTO (Chief Technical Officer) in Engineering at Host Ireland Business Broadband (Telecommunications, 11-50 employees) Chose SolarWinds Loggly I actually couldn't get anybody from Datadog to engage with me, the main problem we had was that our devices couldn't connect to an encrypted port, but we didn't want to send our logs in plain text over the internet. We implemented an on-net log aggregator which then connects … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds Loggly Loggly was a mistake. We selected it to get a cheap vendor-hosted solution up and running quickly but have come to regret the decision and should have spent the effort to set up the right tool from the beginning. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds Loggly With Loggly we can manage not only AWS apps but all the apps we have (not only Cloud-based apps). It is also very convenient to add users that need to have access to a given log streams: we do not need to manage an AWS IAM role/user. And the search engine is way more easy and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds Loggly Loggly is at another level at indexing and search experience. However, since CloudWatch has the full history with least cost it is always the fallback. So if Loggly has something like S3 glacier kind of feature for keeping old logs which are least accessed with less cost, that … Incentivized Helpful? Walter Justet Solutions Architect in Information Technology at Solisystems (Computer & Network Security, 11-50 employees) Chose SolarWinds Loggly Loggly was the easiest to use and the one that really allowed us to get a full view of what's going on with our services, and proactively solve problems. Incentivized Helpful? Eric Cobb VP of Engineering in Engineering at ZolTrain (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees) Chose SolarWinds Loggly I honestly didn't shop around that much. I came from CloudWatch, which though it has been improving, was very frustrating when it came to just setting up a simple alarm when a specific log message is found, or extracting useful metrics from logs. Loggly was recommended to me by … Incentivized Helpful? Sean Patterson Software Development Director in Information Technology at Fresh Consulting (Internet, 51-200 employees) Chose SolarWinds Loggly We initially setup New Relic to monitor our servers/performance as well as look into the potential of having our servers log data into there as a "single source" of our data monitoring. However, we found that the logging needs in New Relic were not in line with the application … Incentivized Helpful? Marios Vasiliou Senior Lead Engineer in Engineering at Softline Computer Systems LTD (Information Services, 1-10 employees) Chose SolarWinds Loggly Loggly had the best parsing and also UI was very easy for the beginner that wants to track some logs and patterns. Anomaly pattern was very good feature. Also, alerting on Loggly was very easy to setup. The Logsense setup was very bad and painful. Sematext had very good UI, but … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds Loggly The log aggregation software environment is very competitive. Many offer close to the same services and it's very hard to differentiate between the two. Loggly is easy to use and easy to manage and the reason why we went with them for this specific project. Also not having a … Incentivized Helpful?
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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User Ratings
	Amazon CloudWatch	SolarWinds Loggly
Likelihood to Recommend	7.7 (40 ratings)	8.2 (48 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	4.5 (1 ratings)
Usability	7.0 (3 ratings)	7.8 (7 ratings)
Support Rating	8.4 (8 ratings)	7.4 (7 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	7.3 (1 ratings)

Amazon CloudWatch vs. SolarWinds Loggly

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