Cloudwatch Plans Pricing
AWS CloudWatch is pure pay-as-you-go: each feature (custom metrics, API requests, alarms, logs ingestion / storage / analysis, dashboards, contributor insights, live tail) has its own per-unit rate. The AWS Free Tier provides perpetual monthly allowances for evaluation. Volume tiers apply to custom metrics and log ingestion. All prices below are us-east-1 list prices and may vary by region; see the pricing calculator for committed-use, savings plan, or enterprise discount terms.
Plans
Perpetual free monthly allowance bundled with every AWS account.
- Basic monitoring metrics from AWS services (no charge)
- Application Signals 3-month trial (100 GB cap)
- First 100,000 X-Ray traces recorded per month
- First 1,000,000 X-Ray traces retrieved per month
Custom metrics and detailed-monitoring metrics, priced per metric per month with volume tiers.
- Standard-resolution metrics
- High-resolution metrics
- GetMetricData / PutMetricData APIs
Per-request charge for CloudWatch API calls beyond the free tier (e.g. GetMetricData, GetMetricStatistics, ListMetrics).
- Applies to PutMetricData, GetMetricData, GetMetricStatistics, ListMetrics, etc.
Standard-resolution alarm metrics billed monthly per alarm metric beyond the 10 included in the free tier.
- Standard-resolution alarms
Tiered pricing for log ingestion, archived storage, and Live Tail streaming.
- Logs Insights queries
- Subscription filters
- Log groups
Per-rule monthly fee plus matched-event charge for Contributor Insights.
- Contributor Insights rules
Other CloudWatch features (Application Signals, Internet Monitor, Network Flow Monitor, Synthetics canaries, RUM, Database Insights) carry feature-specific rates documented on the pricing page. Use the AWS Pricing Calculator to model end-to-end cost.
- Application Signals
- Internet Monitor
- Network Flow Monitor
- Synthetics canaries
- RUM
- Database Insights