Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon CloudWatch is a service that monitors applications, responds to performance changes, optimizes resource use, and provides insights into operational health. By collecting data across AWS resources, CloudWatch gives visibility into system-wide performance and allows users to set alarms, automatically react to changes, and gain a unified view of operational health.
Amazon CloudWatch collects and visualizes real-time logs, metrics, and event data in automated dashboards to streamline your infrastructure and application maintenance.
- Visualize and analyze your data with end-to-end observability
- Operate efficiently with automation
- Quickly obtain an integrated view of your AWS or other resources
- Proactively monitor and get actional insights to enhance end user experiences
Use cases include monitoring application performance, performing root cause analysis, optimizing resources proactively, and testing website impacts.
Included in the Free Tier
- Metrics: Basic Monitoring Metrics (Metrics sent from AWS Services by default) 10 Metrics (of Custom Metrics and Detailed Monitoring Metrics) 1 Million API requests (not including GetMetricData, GetInsightRuleReport and GetMetricWidgetImage: these 3 operations are always charged)
- Dashboard: 3 Custom Dashboards referencing up to 50 metrics each per month. Additionally, all Automatic Dashboards are free.
- Alarms: 10 Alarm metrics (only applicable to Standard resolution alarms that list metrics directly and don’t use a Metrics Insights query)
- Logs: 5 GB Data (ingestion, archive storage, and data scanned by Logs Insights queries) 1,800 minutes of Live Tail usage per month (approximately an hour per day)
- Events: All events except custom events are included
- Contributor Insights: 1 Contributor Insights rule per month The first 1 million log events that match the rule per month
- Application Signals: 100 million Application Signals per month during Preview
- Synthetics: 100 canary runs per month
- Evidently: First time free trial includes 3 million Evidently events and 10 million Evidently analysis units per account
- RUM: First time free trial includes 1 million RUM events per account
Visit the Amazon CloudWatch Pricing Page for more information on its free tier offering.