Amazon CloudWatch vs. Elasticsearch

Amazon CloudWatch

Elasticsearch

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
Elasticsearch	Score8.6 out of 10	N/A	Elasticsearch is an enterprise search tool from Elastic in Mountain View, California.	$16 per month

Pricing

Amazon CloudWatch

Elasticsearch

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: $16.00
per month
Gold: $19.00
per month
Platinum: $22.00
per month
Enterprise: Contact Sales

Pricing Offerings
Amazon CloudWatch	Elasticsearch
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
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	Elasticsearch
Considered Both Products	Amazon AWS 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 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? 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 You can create very easily particular alarms. 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? 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 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?	Elastic Gedson Silva Senior Production Engineer in Engineering at Carrilho Engineering (Telecommunications, 11-50 employees) Chose Elasticsearch Elasticsearch is much easier to set up and maintain. It provides better distributed architecture and fault tolerance, and is much faster searching. 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	Elasticsearch
Likelihood to Recommend	7.7 (40 ratings)	9.0 (48 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	7.0 (3 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	8.4 (8 ratings)	7.8 (9 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)

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