Amazon CloudWatch vs. Splunk Observability Cloud

Amazon CloudWatch

Splunk Observability Cloud

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
Splunk Observability Cloud	Score9 out of 10	N/A	Splunk Observability Cloud aims to enable operational agility and better customer experience through real-time AI-driven streaming analytics allowing accurate alerts in seconds. It is designed to shorten MTTD and MTTR by providing real-time visibility into cloud infrastructure and services.	$180 per year per host

Pricing

Amazon CloudWatch

Splunk Observability Cloud

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

Infrastructure: $15
per month (billed annually) per host
App & Infra: $60
per month (billed annually) per host
End-to-End: $75
per month (billed annually) per host

Pricing Offerings
Amazon CloudWatch	Splunk Observability Cloud
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
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	Splunk Observability Cloud
Considered Both Products	Amazon AWS No answer on this topic	Cisco Verified User Chose Splunk Observability Cloud Splunk is better for Multicloud and UI is very good as compared to other Solutions. Also, time saving in case of Developer Productivity as Detectors can be saved as code. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Splunk Observability Cloud I selected Splunk Observability Cloud because it focused so much on OTEL standards which will help us in future as OTEL is covering most of the observability standards. And also it has the best Kubernetes observability as I already explained it has several predefined dashboards … Incentivized Helpful?
	Would buy again
	No answers on this topic	No answers on this topic
	Delivers good value for the price
	No answers on this topic	No answers on this topic
	Happy with the feature set
	No answers on this topic	No answers on this topic
	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
	No answers on this topic	No answers on this topic
	Implementation went as expected
No answers on this topic	No answers on this topic

User Ratings
	Amazon CloudWatch	Splunk Observability Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend	7.7 (40 ratings)	8.6 (24 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	6.4 (1 ratings)
Usability	7.0 (3 ratings)	7.3 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	8.4 (8 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

Amazon CloudWatch vs. Splunk Observability Cloud

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