Amazon CloudWatch

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

Pricing

Amazon CloudWatch

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

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

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	Amazon CloudWatch
Considered Both Products	Amazon AWS Verified User Chose Amazon CloudWatch 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon CloudWatch If you use AWS, then just use CloudWatch, as it's tightly integrated. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon CloudWatch 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon CloudWatch In comparison to its competitors, Amazon CloudWatch is efficient, reliable, and has a fast response time, and it maximizes an application's life while also providing the best load balance and storage. The services that Amazon CloudWatch provides are far better and cheaper for … Incentivized Helpful? Rob Domenico Senior Systems Administrator in Information Technology at Bentek Inc. (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose Amazon CloudWatch We have also tested with SolarWinds NPM, and Zoho Monitors. They seemed to work fine and setup was not as involved as Amazon services, JSON, etc. However, the issue of upgrades made the other solutions incur more downtime overall for maintenance and software upgrades via the … Incentivized Helpful? Apurv Doshi Senior Solutions Architect at Infostretch (Information Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Amazon CloudWatch I think there is no alternative of [Amazon] CloudWatch service. However it provides lot of glue points which you can use to show different metrics, trigger events and update your dashboards. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon CloudWatch I believe that CloudWatch is a better solution to use with AWS services and resources in terms of cost and ease of integration with AWS infrastructure services. But keep in mind that Elasticsearch is better at aggregating application-level metrics. We chose CloudWatch because of … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon CloudWatch You can create very easily particular alarms. Incentivized Helpful? Ramindu Deshapriya Lead Consultant - Technology in Information Technology at Virtusa (Computer Software, 10,001+ employees) Chose Amazon CloudWatch We found that CloudWatch is the best solution to use with AWS services in terms of cost and ease of integration with AWS infrastructure services. While Elasticsearch is better at aggregating application-level metrics, CloudWatch wins out in its capabilities to tightly integrate … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon CloudWatch CloudWatch is the minimum viable product that is used as your baseline. Once you graduate beyond the basic needs, there is a wide range of tools from other AWS partners that go well above and beyond. However the cost of those tools is typically considerably more. Incentivized Helpful? Diego Turcios Lara Devops Engineer in Information Technology at Acklen Avenue (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose Amazon CloudWatch We thought about using Logstash for capturing our data. But we encountered several configuration issues, so as I mentioned before, if you're using AWS, the best way to do this is using the service they offer, as you don't encounter configuration problems. This is why I consider … Incentivized Helpful? Gedson Silva Senior Production Engineer in Engineering at Carrilho Engineering (Telecommunications, 51-200 employees) Chose Amazon CloudWatch CloudWatch's native integration with other AWS tools such as AWS and Lambda make it a better fit and simpler to set up than most of the competitors. Incentivized Helpful? Jose Adan Ortiz Sales Engineer in Sales at Mainsoft S.A. (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Amazon CloudWatch I think Amazon has put more efforts to develop AWS CloudWatch features to monitor each kind of AWS service you can use instead of Dynatrace One Agent that just can monitor some variables of Computing services and FaaS, unless Dynatrace One Agent integration with AWS CloudWatch … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon CloudWatch Nagios is nice, but not as coupled with AWS cloud as CloudWatch. You might even think of cases you would use them both. Incentivized Helpful? Xialin Zhu Engineering Manager in Engineering at LinkedIn (Internet, 10,001+ employees) Chose Amazon CloudWatch AWS is still a more mature product overall and offers more features compared to other cloud platforms like Google. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon CloudWatch Out of the box monitoring which compliments workloads implemented from infrastructure as code so we have standardized metrics across all our monitoring for our AWS workloads. Also incredibly easy to implement via the console which can be done in minutes oppose to hours of … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon CloudWatch We choose Amazon CloudWatch because, first, we use AWS and we need a monitoring tool. That is why we considered CloudWatch as soon as we started deploying AWS services to our company. Second, CloudWatch is a great, handy tool to monitor our services. Its strength is obvious … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon CloudWatch Currently, we only tried and used Cloud Watch, but for AWS it is perfect. Since this is an Amazon product monitoring Amazon services, integration is great. If we decide in the future to move away from AWS, we would reconsider changing alarm monitoring. AWS can be costly … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon CloudWatch Amazon CloudWatch is fully integrated into your existing AWS account, and provides easy hooks into several different services to make a cohesive infrastructure. Unfortunately, using other services will not allow you to get into the weeds to do everything Amazon CloudWatch can … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon CloudWatch It's cheap and we use other AVS services. And for us, it is better to use AWS services for faster and easier adjustment. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon CloudWatch CloudWatch is incredibly cheap compared to New Relic and much more intuitive and easy to use than Nagios. It requires no setup, expertise, or otherwise extensive knowledge to use. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon CloudWatch We used to use Miscosoft Azure, however when we came across Amazon CloudWatch, and all the features it can provide, it seemd no brainer to switch. We transitioned from Azure to CloudWatch within 2 years of using Azure, And may not go back. Hopefully Amazon will keep adding more … Incentivized Helpful? 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? Verified User Chose Amazon CloudWatch I feel that CloudWatch will always remain the backbone of log analytics, events, and alarms. However, we can use other products in conjunction with it for better log analytics and monitoring. In my organization, we also ingest logs from CloudWatch to Splunk and ELK. This way we … Incentivized Helpful?
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	Amazon CloudWatch
Likelihood to Recommend	7.7 (40 ratings)
Usability	7.0 (3 ratings)
Support Rating	8.4 (8 ratings)

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