Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon Web Services · Infrastructure monitoring · Observability
What the price is per
| Plan | Unit | Audience | Seats | Limits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free tier | not stated | business | no minimum stated | Log data (ingestion, archive, Insights scan): 5 GB; Live Tail usage: 1,800 minutes/month; Contributor Insights rules: 1 rules/month; Contributor Insights matched log events: 1,000,000 events/month; Custom and detailed monitoring metrics: 10 metrics; Metric API requests: 1,000,000 requests; Custom dashboards: 3 dashboards/month; Alarm metrics: 10 alarm metrics; X-Ray traces recorded: 100,000 traces/month; X-Ray traces retrieved or scanned: 1,000,000 traces/month; Synthetics canary runs: 100 runs/month; RUM events: 1,000,000 events; Application Signals data ingested: 100 GB; Network flow monitoring: 10 resources; Database Insights Standard performance history: 7 days |
| Paid tier | metric | business | no minimum stated | none captured |
The unit is what one increment of the price buys, as the vendor words it: a user, a host, an endpoint, a thousand credits. Where a vendor's page does not say, the cell says so rather than guessing.
Sources
- Amazon CloudWatch Pricing | Free Tier Available Vendor page.
- [1] Captured 23 Sep 2026.
- [2] Captured 23 Sep 2026.
- [5] Captured 24 Sep 2026.
- AWS services that publish CloudWatch metrics - Amazon CloudWatch Vendor page.
- [3] Captured 24 Sep 2026.
- Amazon Web Services (Datadog Docs) Vendor page.
- [4] Captured 24 Sep 2026.