Cloud-native
Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon Web Services
AWS's native monitoring/observability — metrics, logs, alarms, dashboards and canaries for everything running in AWS.
- Category
- Cloud-native
- License
- Proprietary
- Deployment
- SaaS
- Cost
- Medium
- Free tier
- Yes
- Self-host effort
- —
- Maturity
- Incumbent
- Popularity
- Default for the entire AWS install base
The catch
The billing is a notorious trap — 15+ dimensions, tiered log ingestion, per-node Container Insights and $0.30 custom metrics combine in non-obvious ways; teams routinely underestimate spend 2-4×, and it's AWS-only.
Monitors
MetricsLogsTracesSyntheticsServersCloudK8s
Capabilities
AlertingDashboardsAPI
Built for
EnterpriseSRE / DevOps