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    Overview
    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

    SolarWinds AppOptics

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/ASolarWinds AppOptics (formerly Librato) is an IT infrastructure monitoring service and APM, based on technology acquired by SolarWinds with Librato in 2015 to expand its cloud monitoring portfolio.N/A
    Pricing
    Amazon CloudWatchSolarWinds AppOptics
    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
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon CloudWatchSolarWinds AppOptics
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    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.—
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    Amazon CloudWatchSolarWinds AppOptics
    Considered Both Products
    Amazon AWS
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    SolarWinds
    Chose SolarWinds AppOptics
    As an early-stage startup, we evaluated the different options on the following parameters: Functionality Monitoring overhead Cost Easy-to-use dashboard AppOptics had most of the features that we needed and offered their services at a reasonable price that made sense for …
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds AppOptics
    We analyzed a number of alternatives to AppOptics, but none combined strong performance in all of our key areas - we needed a solution which could be deployed on premise, supported multi tenant hosts, provided the ability to analyse individual requests, presented intuitive …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Amazon CloudWatchSolarWinds AppOptics
    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Amazon CloudWatch and SolarWinds AppOptics
    Feature
    Amazon CloudWatch
    -
    Ratings
    SolarWinds AppOptics
    6.9
    30 Ratings
    Application monitoring00 Ratings8.530 Ratings
    Database monitoring00 Ratings7.528 Ratings
    Threshold alerts00 Ratings6.526 Ratings
    Predictive capabilities00 Ratings4.612 Ratings
    Application performance management console00 Ratings7.226 Ratings
    Collaboration tools00 Ratings6.014 Ratings
    Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications00 Ratings6.220 Ratings
    Application dependency mapping and thresholding00 Ratings6.618 Ratings
    Virtualization monitoring00 Ratings7.313 Ratings
    Server availability and performance monitoring00 Ratings8.123 Ratings
    Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting00 Ratings7.316 Ratings
    IT Asset Discovery00 Ratings7.29 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Amazon CloudWatchSolarWinds AppOptics
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.7
    (40 ratings)
    7.8
    (30 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.6
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.4
    (8 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)