Amazon CloudWatch vs. Sumo Logic

Amazon CloudWatch

Sumo Logic

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
Sumo Logic	Score9.5 out of 10	N/A	Sumo Logic is a log management offering from the San Francisco based company of the same name.	$3 Per GB Logs

Pricing

Amazon CloudWatch

Sumo Logic

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

Essentials: $3.00
Per GB Logs
Enterprise: $4.00
Per GB Logs
Enterprise Security: $4.25
Per GB Logs
Enterprise Suite: $4.75
Per GB Logs

Pricing Offerings
Amazon CloudWatch	Sumo Logic
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	Sumo Logic
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? Verified User Chose Amazon CloudWatch Ultimately because we are in the AWS cloud we need a tool to report, alert, and hold our logs in AWS, and AWS cloudwatch has great integrations with all existing AWS products. There are some UX quirks and I wish the dashboarding tools could stack up against some of the … Incentivized Helpful?	Sumo Logic No answer on this topic
	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	Sumo Logic
Likelihood to Recommend	7.7 (40 ratings)	8.8 (16 ratings)
Usability	7.0 (3 ratings)	9.0 (4 ratings)
Support Rating	8.4 (8 ratings)	8.7 (6 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Professional Services	- (0 ratings)	6.2 (3 ratings)

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