Amazon CloudWatch vs. SolarWinds Papertrail

Amazon CloudWatch

SolarWinds Papertrail

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 Papertrail	Score8.9 out of 10	N/A	Austin based SolarWinds acquired log management tool Papertrail in April, 2015.	N/A

Pricing

Amazon CloudWatch

SolarWinds Papertrail

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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Pricing Offerings
Amazon CloudWatch	SolarWinds Papertrail
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	No

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.

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Amazon CloudWatch	SolarWinds Papertrail
Considered Both Products	Amazon AWS Kevin Van Heusen Software Architect in Engineering at SpringAhead (Internet, 51-200 employees) Chose Amazon CloudWatch Amazon CloudWatch is great in terms of the CloudWatch Logs feature, it integrates easily with other AWS services (CloudFormation, S3, Lambda, etc.) and is reasonably low cost, so it was a no-brainer for that area. For alerting, CloudWatch didn't offer much in the way of … Incentivized Helpful?	SolarWinds Verified User Chose SolarWinds Papertrail SolarWinds Papertrail is as easy and intuitive to use as Amazon CloudWatch is hard and intuitive. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds Papertrail CloudWatch, by itself, is terrible at search. CloudWatch Insights works great and has powerful search capabilities, but it's more difficult to set up alerts. Also, because Insights charges per search, you have the potential to accumulate a large bill if you need to do many … Incentivized Helpful? Josep Cedo CTO in Information Technology at Tekman Education (E-Learning, 51-200 employees) Chose SolarWinds Papertrail Readability, management, easy to deploy and configure Incentivized Helpful?
	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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User Ratings
	Amazon CloudWatch	SolarWinds Papertrail
Likelihood to Recommend	7.7 (40 ratings)	8.6 (19 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (1 ratings)
Usability	7.0 (3 ratings)	9.1 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	8.4 (8 ratings)	9.1 (1 ratings)

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