AWS's native monitoring service: collects metrics and logs from AWS services and your apps, with alarms, dashboards, synthetic canaries and application signals.
Pricing and hosting
- Pricing
- Free plan
- Free plan
- 10 custom metrics, 10 alarms, 5 GB logs per month
- Open source
- No
- Self-hosted
- No
- Launched
- 2009
- Status
- Active
- Website
- aws.amazon.com
Plans and prices change; check the tool's own site before you decide.
What it does
Cloud provider monitoring checklist
10 of 10 confirmed in Amazon CloudWatch's own documentation. The same checklist is used for every tool in Cloud.
- Provider service metrics Yes
- Logs Yes
- Traces Yes
- Alarms Yes
- Dashboards Yes
- Managed Prometheus or PromQL Yes
- Synthetic checks Yes
- Anomaly detection Yes
- Multi-account views Yes
- OpenTelemetry ingest Yes
Traces via X-Ray/Application Signals; PromQL queries over CloudWatch metrics; cross-account observability built in.
Checked against: aws.amazon.com, docs.aws.amazon.com, docs.aws.amazon.com (2)
Alternatives to Amazon CloudWatch
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Google Cloud Observability Google Cloud's suite (formerly Stackdriver) of Cloud Monitoring, Logging and Trace for metrics, logs, uptime checks and alerting on Google Cloud and other environments. -
OCI Monitoring Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's metrics and alarms service for OCI resources and custom application metrics, queried with its Monitoring Query Language. -
Scaleway Cockpit Scaleway's observability service built on Grafana, Mimir, Loki and Tempo, collecting metrics and logs from Scaleway products by default and accepting external data. - Azure Monitor Microsoft Azure's monitoring service for metrics, logs and traces from Azure resources and apps, including Application Insights, Log Analytics, alerts and managed Prometheus.
- IBM Cloud Monitoring Managed monitoring service on IBM Cloud for metrics from infrastructure, Kubernetes clusters, cloud services and applications, with dashboards and alerts.
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