--- description: Learn more about Amazon CloudWatch price, benefits, and disadvantages for businesses in Australia. Read reviews from verified users and discover similar tools that fit your business needs. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/capterra/og_logo-e5a8c001ed0bd1bb922639230fcea71a.png?auto=format%2Cenhance%2Ccompress title: Amazon CloudWatch Cost & Reviews - Capterra Australia 2026 --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Website Monitoring Software](/directory/10021/website-monitoring/software) > [Amazon CloudWatch](/software/204333/amazon-cloudwatch) # Amazon CloudWatch Canonical: https://www.capterra.com.au/software/204333/amazon-cloudwatch Page: 1 / 5\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.com.au/software/204333/amazon-cloudwatch?page=2) > Observability of your AWS resources and applications on AWS and on-premises > > Verdict: Rated **4.5/5** by 91 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## 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** | 91 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.com.au/directory/10021/website-monitoring/software) ## Related Categories - [Website Monitoring Software](https://www.capterra.com.au/directory/10021/website-monitoring/software) - [Cloud Management Software](https://www.capterra.com.au/directory/30852/cloud-management/software) - [Vulnerability Management Software](https://www.capterra.com.au/directory/31062/vulnerability-management/software) - [DevOps Tools](https://www.capterra.com.au/directory/31120/devops/software) - [Application Performance Management Tools](https://www.capterra.com.au/directory/30208/application-performance-management-software/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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[Datadog](https://www.capterra.com.au/software/135453/datadog-cloud-monitoring) — 4.6/5 (357 reviews) ## Reviews ### "Amazon cloudwatch having lot of features" — 5.0/5 > **balwinder** | *6 June 2025* | Banking | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: Mostly as a Application performance monitoring used RUM ( real user monitoring ) that is having deep insights and log support is bonus . we can create dashboards to looks logs and metrics in real time. > > **Cons**: Cloud watch alarms will provide notification , price we need to monitor regularly , some time i felt hybrid environment is a challenge here > > we can handle monitoring in large scale applications even it is work closely with AWS lambda and Auto scaling ----- ### "Powerful AWS Monitoring Tool" — 4.0/5 > **Tony** | *25 May 2025* | Facilities Services | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: Amazon CloudWatch is its deep integration with AWS services, which makes it incredibly powerful and convenient for monitoring and observability. > > **Cons**: Amazon CloudWatch’s pricing complexity and cost unpredictability, especially for logs and custom metrics. > > ecosystem. It provides a powerful and flexible observability solution that’s deeply integrated with AWS services, making it easy to collect and act on operational data. ----- ### "Visualize the metrics before the downtime" — 5.0/5 > **Jignesh** | *9 August 2025* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **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. ----- ### "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. ----- ### "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. > > 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. ----- Page: 1 / 5\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.com.au/software/204333/amazon-cloudwatch?page=2) ## Links - [View on Capterra](https://www.capterra.com.au/software/204333/amazon-cloudwatch) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | en | | | en-AE | | | en-AU | | | en-CA | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-IL | | | en-IN | | | en-NZ | | | en-SG | | | en-ZA | | | fr | | | fr-BE | | | fr-CA | | | fr-LU | | | it | | | nl | | | nl-BE | | ----- ## Structured Data