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Amazon CloudWatch vs. Grafana

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Amazon CloudWatch

169 Reviews and Ratings

Grafana

117 Reviews and Ratings

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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

    Grafana

    Score8.7 out of 10
    		N/AGrafana is a data visualization tool developed by Grafana Labs in New York. It is available open source, managed (Grafana Cloud), or via an enterprise edition with enhanced features. Grafana has pluggable data source model and comes bundled with support for popular time series databases like Graphite. It also has built-in support for cloud monitoring vendors like Amazon Cloudwatch, Microsoft Azure and SQL databases like MySQL. Grafana can combine data from many places into a single dashboard.

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    Pricing
    Amazon CloudWatchGrafana
    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
    Grafana Cloud - Pro
    $8
    per month up to 1 active user
    Grafana Cloud - Free
    Free
    10k metrics + 50GB logs + 50GB traces up to 3 active users
    Grafana Cloud - Advanced
    Volume Discounts
    custom data usage custom active users
    Grafana - Enterprise Stack
    Custom Pricing
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon CloudWatchGrafana
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    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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    Community Pulse
    Amazon CloudWatchGrafana
    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
    Verified User
    Chose Amazon CloudWatch
    You can create very easily particular alarms.
    Incentivized
    Grafana Labs
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
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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 CloudWatchGrafana
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Amazon CloudWatch and Grafana
    Feature
    Amazon CloudWatch
    -
    Ratings
    Grafana
    8.0
    5 Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings6.05 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Amazon CloudWatch and Grafana
    Feature
    Amazon CloudWatch
    -
    Ratings
    Grafana
    6.8
    4 Ratings
    Drill-down analysis00 Ratings6.04 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings5.04 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Amazon CloudWatch and Grafana
    Feature
    Amazon CloudWatch
    -
    Ratings
    Grafana
    8.4
    4 Ratings
    Publish to Web00 Ratings7.04 Ratings
    Publish to PDF00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Report Versioning00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Amazon CloudWatch and Grafana
    Feature
    Amazon CloudWatch
    -
    Ratings
    Grafana
    7.7
    4 Ratings
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics00 Ratings7.04 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings6.02 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Amazon CloudWatchGrafana
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.7
    (40 ratings)
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.4
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)