--- description: Learn more about Amazon CloudWatch price, benefits, and disadvantages for businesses in Ireland. Read verified software reviews and discover 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 Pricing, Cost & Reviews - Capterra Ireland 2026 --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Website Monitoring Software](/directory/10021/website-monitoring/software) > [Amazon CloudWatch](/software/204333/amazon-cloudwatch) # Amazon CloudWatch Canonical: https://www.capterra.ie/software/204333/amazon-cloudwatch Page: 1 / 5\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.ie/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 - Prioritisation - 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.ie/directory/10021/website-monitoring/software) ## Related Categories - [Website Monitoring Software](https://www.capterra.ie/directory/10021/website-monitoring/software) - [Cloud Integration Software](https://www.capterra.ie/directory/30852/cloud-management/software) - [Vulnerability Management Software](https://www.capterra.ie/directory/31062/vulnerability-management/software) - [DevOps Software](https://www.capterra.ie/directory/31120/devops/software) - [Application Performance Management Software](https://www.capterra.ie/directory/30208/application-performance-management-software/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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Besides giving a comprehensive view on the number of errors and delivering alarms when certain thresholds are exceeded. > > **Cons**: A considerable disadvantage of Amazon CloudWatch is its price formation, which is often very complicated to deal with. In some cases, especially when a lot of metrics or logs or API calls are being monitored, the charges imposed can increase drastically. The service is rich in what it offers, but sometimes, the complexity of the user interface can be intimidating for novice users, making it hard for such beginners to adjust or learn promptly. > > I am happy with Amazon CloudWatch. It gives a great deal of experience and also is immensely powerful and very effective in terms of monitoring the AWS sources. The positives are far bigger than the challenge- automation and monitoring done as benefits flow from the other. ----- ### "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. ----- ### "Amazing log monitoring tool" — 5.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *20 January 2026* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: All our aws monitoring dashboard are built from cloudwatch, all lambdas, KMS, RDS have cloudwatch logs, you can turn it on for each operation can check what happens for that operation, it is very easy to use and learn how to query what you need. > > **Cons**: Again, I think they should introduce new AI powered tool to help you find what you need from millions of cloud watch logs instead each time I have to select log group and construct my query to find my data. > > Overall experience is good, since all operation happened on AWS will have logs in amazon cloudwatch system. ----- Page: 1 / 5\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.ie/software/204333/amazon-cloudwatch?page=2) ## Links - [View on Capterra](https://www.capterra.ie/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