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Amazon CloudWatch

by Amazon Web Services · Infrastructure monitoring, Observability

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Plan or add-onUsage-based
Free tierBasic metrics from AWS services plus small monthly allowances for logs, dashboards, alarms and tracesFree[2]
Paid tierPay per use, billed at the end of each month; no minimum fee$0.30 first tier[5] per metric / month $0.10 second tier · $0.05 third tier
OpenTelemetry metrics ingestionAdd-on to Paid tier, per GB$0.50[2] per GB
OTel vended metric enrichmentAdd-on to Paid tier, per GB$0.50[2] per GB
PromQL API queriesAdd-on to Paid tier, per 1,000,000 samples$0.01[2] per 1,000,000 samples
PutMetricData API requestsAdd-on to Paid tier, per 1,000,000 requests$0.01[2] per 1,000,000 requests
Metric centralization copiesAdd-on to Paid tier, per GB$0.05[2] per GB
Container Insights with OpenTelemetry for EKSAdd-on to Paid tier, per GB$0.08[2] per GB
Internet monitoring, monitored resourceAdd-on to Paid tier, per resource-hour$0.01[2] per resource / hour
Internet monitoring, city-networksAdd-on to Paid tier, per 10,000 city-networks$0.74[2] per 10,000 city-networks / hour
Live TailAdd-on to Paid tier, per minute$0.01[2] per minute

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What each plan includes

Free tier
Log data (ingestion, archive, Insights scan)5 GB [2]Covers ingestion, archive storage and Logs Insights scanning combined
Live Tail usage1,800 minutes/month [2]About an hour a day
Contributor Insights rules1 rules/month [2]
Contributor Insights matched log events1,000,000 events/month [2]
Custom and detailed monitoring metrics10 metrics [2]Basic metrics from AWS services are free on top of this
Metric API requests1,000,000 requests [2]Excludes GetMetricData, GetInsightRuleReport and GetMetricWidgetImage
Custom dashboards3 dashboards/month [2]Up to 50 metrics each; automatic dashboards are free
Alarm metrics10 alarm metrics [2]Standard-resolution alarms only
X-Ray traces recorded100,000 traces/month [2]
X-Ray traces retrieved or scanned1,000,000 traces/month [2]
Synthetics canary runs100 runs/month [2]
RUM events1,000,000 events [2]One-time trial per account
Application Signals data ingested100 GB [2]First 3 months per account, or until used up
Network flow monitoring10 resources [2]For 12 months
Database Insights Standard performance history7 days [2]Rolling 7 days of database load history
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Free tier

PriceWhereBillingTypeChannelSource
FreeAllowances listed under limits––List priceVendor's own sitesource [2]

Paid tier

PriceWhereBillingTypeChannelSource
$0.30 per metric / monthFirst 10,000 custom metrics; prorated by the hour–usage-basedList priceVendor's own sitesource [5]
$0.10 per metric / month10,001 to 250,000 custom metrics–usage-basedList priceVendor's own sitesource [5]
$0.05 per metric / monthFrom 250,001 custom metrics–usage-basedList priceVendor's own sitesource [5]

OpenTelemetry metrics ingestion

PriceWhereBillingTypeChannelSource
$0.50 per GBIncludes 15 months of metric storage; rates vary by region–usage-basedList priceVendor's own sitesource [2]

OTel vended metric enrichment

PriceWhereBillingTypeChannelSource
$0.50 per GBRates vary by region–usage-basedList priceVendor's own sitesource [2]

PromQL API queries

PriceWhereBillingTypeChannelSource
$0.01 per 1,000,000 samplesQueries run in the console are free; rates vary by region–usage-basedList priceVendor's own sitesource [2]

PutMetricData API requests

PriceWhereBillingTypeChannelSource
$0.01 per 1,000,000 requestsCharged on top of metric storage; rates vary by region–usage-basedList priceVendor's own sitesource [2]

Metric centralization copies

PriceWhereBillingTypeChannelSource
$0.05 per GBFirst copy to each destination account is free–usage-basedList priceVendor's own sitesource [2]

Container Insights with OpenTelemetry for EKS

PriceWhereBillingTypeChannelSource
$0.08 per GBFor Amazon EKS clusters; rates vary by region–usage-basedList priceVendor's own sitesource [2]

Internet monitoring, monitored resource

PriceWhereBillingTypeChannelSource
$0.01 per resource / hourFor each resource in each monitor–usage-basedList priceVendor's own sitesource [2]

Internet monitoring, city-networks

PriceWhereBillingTypeChannelSource
$0.74 per 10,000 city-networks / hour–usage-basedList priceVendor's own sitesource [2]

Live Tail

PriceWhereBillingTypeChannelSource
$0.01 per minute–usage-basedList priceVendor's own sitesource [2]

About

Amazon CloudWatch is AWS's monitoring and observability service for metrics, logs and alarms, billed monthly for what is used with no up-front commitment or minimum fee.[1] A free tier covers basic metrics that most AWS services send automatically, plus limited log ingestion and storage.[1] Beyond the free tier it is priced per unit of use, such as per GB ingested, per million requests or per minute, and most rates vary by AWS Region.[2] Classic custom metrics, the headline meter, are billed per metric per month in volume tiers starting at $0.30 per metric.[5]

Related products

  • Integrates with Amazon Aurora verified[3] Aurora metrics flow into CloudWatch automatically
  • Integrates with Amazon Quick Sight verified[3] Quick Sight metrics flow into CloudWatch automatically
  • Integrates with Amazon RDS verified[3] RDS metrics flow into CloudWatch automatically
  • Integrates with Amazon Redshift verified[3] Redshift metrics flow into CloudWatch automatically
  • Integrates with AWS Elastic Beanstalk verified[3] Elastic Beanstalk metrics flow into CloudWatch automatically
  • Integrates with Infrastructure Monitoring verified[4] Datadog can pull CloudWatch metrics or receive them as a stream
  • Integrates with Log Management verified[4] CloudWatch log groups can be forwarded to Datadog

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