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# Amazon CloudWatch

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> Observability of your AWS resources and applications on AWS and on-premises
> 
> Verdict: Rated **4.5/5** by 93 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**.

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## Overview

### Who Uses Amazon CloudWatch?

IT admins, IT managers, Developers, Systems Engineers, Cloud Architects, Cloud Developers, Cloud Infrastructure Security teams, Infrastructure, Security, \& Deployment teams

## Quick Stats & Ratings

| Metric | Rating | Detail |
| **Overall** | **4.5/5** | 93 Reviews |
| Ease of Use | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Customer Support | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Value for Money | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Features | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Recommendation percentage | 80% | (8/10 Likelihood to recommend) |

## About the vendor

- **Company**: Amazon Web Services
- **Location**: Seattle, US
- **Founded**: 2006

## Commercial Context

- **Pricing model**: Per Feature (Free version available)
- **Pricing Details**: No up-front commitment or minimum fee; you simply pay for what you use.
- **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1 000, 1 001–5 000, 5 001–10 000, 10 000+
- **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop)
- **Supported Languages**: English
- **Available Countries**: United States

## Features

- Access Controls/Permissions
- Alerts/Notifications
- Asset Discovery
- Availability Testing
- Dashboard
- Event Logs
- Monitoring
- Performance Analysis
- Performance Metrics
- Policy Management
- Prioritization
- Real-Time Monitoring
- Release Management
- Resource Management
- Risk Management
- Root Cause Analysis
- Server Monitoring
- Service Level Agreement (SLA) Management
- Uptime Reporting
- Vulnerability Assessment

## Integrations (8 total)

- AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
- AWS Lambda
- Amazon API Gateway
- Amazon DynamoDB
- Amazon EC2
- Amazon ECS
- Amazon S3

## Support Options

- FAQs/Forum
- Knowledge Base
- 24/7 (Live rep)
- Chat

## Category

- [Website Monitoring Software](https://www.capterra.co.za/directory/10021/website-monitoring/software)

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4. [DoiT](https://www.capterra.co.za/software/1033442/doit) — 4.8/5 (56 reviews)
5. [AWS CloudFormation](https://www.capterra.co.za/software/205397/cloudformation) — 4.5/5 (110 reviews)

## Reviews

### "Visualize the metrics before the downtime" — 5.0/5

> **Jignesh** | *09 August 2025* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10
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> **Pros**: you can see the real-time utilization of the resources and visualize the charts which help you to identify the problems in early stage. You can setup the alarms based on your required criteria.
> 
> **Cons**: The CloudWatch dashboard is a little complex for beginners. You should have a basic knowledge of AWS to use CloudWatch services. You always need expert's help to understand the cost.

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### "Lots to watch with cloudwatch" — 4.0/5

> **Ash** | *22 May 2025* | Entertainment | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: The wide range of options and granularity your able to set on monitors and alerts allows accurate data to be served.
> 
> **Cons**: It can be complex to setup and there should be some easier options to start with and build from for some use cases.
> 
> It's a good solution and makes managing and monitoring most amazon services and some external ones accurate.

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### "The way to monitor your AWS" — 5.0/5

> **Ilya** | *02 May 2026* | Computer & Network Security | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: Allows you to monitor basically almost every service in AWS, and assign alerts to services you want to be alerted on
> 
> **Cons**: There is a quite large learning curve, and easy to get lost in the configurations of the alerts you want to set for your services

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### "Integration within AWS is great, cost transparency is poor, dashboards are a thumbs down" — 3.0/5

> **☁️ 👩‍💻 M** | *21 May 2025* | Telecommunications | Recommendation rating: 4.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: I like the integrations. For example, the integration between AWS ECS and memory utilization CloudWatch alarms. Another example, I like the integration between CloudWatch insights and WAFs logs. That is helpful.
> 
> **Cons**: AWS has great services, but CloudWatch isn't one of them. It is noisy, and cannot mute scaling instances/containers automatically. There's better monitoring/observability software out there. Also, CloudWatch is probably one of the more expensive AWS services out there. I would like to see more transparency on where these CloudWatch costs are coming from. I do not like the dashboard prices. Visualization isn't sleek.
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> Overall, there's better monitoring software out there. The dashboards are not visually appealing. I would like to see more cost transparency. I do like the integrations with the other AWS services like ECS and WAF.

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### "Cloudwatch- a good overall monitoring tool" — 5.0/5

> **Vatsal** | *26 May 2026* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: Great tool to use to have default metrics for all aws resources and also flexibility to create custom metrics. Really like how it has the logs insights options to query logs in a sql like query and debug issues fast.
> 
> **Cons**: The UI is not very intuitive for some of the things and there should be more options to view metrics graphs based on building expressions.

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