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Amazon CloudWatch Plans Pricing
Amazon CloudWatch Plans Pricing is the pricing profile for Amazon CloudWatch on the APIs.io network — every figure transcribed verbatim from the provider’s own pricing page on 2026-10-28.
It defines 16 plans, including Free tier — Get started for free; Live Tail — $0.01 per minute; Log Centralization additional log copies — additional log copies cost $0.05/GB, and 13 more.
The page prices API or platform usage directly, priced by usage; the service is delivered as managed.
Tagged areas include Amazon Web Services, CloudWatch, Monitoring, Observability, and Metrics.
16 Plans
Prices the API
Basis: usage other
Delivered: managed
Transcribed from the provider's pricing page on 2026-10-28 — aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/pricing/.
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| Plan | Price | Includes | Overage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free tier | Get started for free | 5 GB logs data; 10 custom metrics; 1 Million API requests; 3 custom dashboards; 10 alarm metrics; 1,800 minutes Live Tail; 100,000 X-Ray traces recorded; 100 canary runs | — |
| Live Tail | $0.01 per minute per minute | 1,800 minutes/month free | — |
| Log Centralization additional log copies | additional log copies cost $0.05/GB per GB | first log copy is free | — |
| Contributor Insights for PrivateLink rule | $9.00 per rule per month per rule | evaluating up to 50,000 endpoints | — |
| Publishing OpenTelemetry Metrics | $0.50 per GB ingested per GB ingested | includes 15 months of storage | — |
| PromQL query | $0.01 per million samples scanned per million samples scanned | console/dashboard queries free | — |
| PutMetricData requests | $0.01/M requests per million requests | — | — |
| Metric centralization additional copies | charged at $0.05/GB copied per GB copied | first copy to destination account free | — |
| Spans indexed as X-Ray trace summaries | $0.75 per million spans indexed after the first 1% of spans indexed at no charge per million spans indexed | first 1% of spans indexed free | — |
| Container Insights with OpenTelemetry for EKS | $0.08 per GB per GB ingested | — | — |
| Internet Monitoring monitored resources | $0.01 per resource per hour per resource per hour | — | — |
| Internet Monitoring city-networks | $0.74 per 10,000 monitored city-networks per hour per 10,000 city-networks per hour | first 100 city-networks free | — |
| X-Ray traces recorded | $0.000005 per trace per trace | first 100,000 traces/month free | — |
| X-Ray traces retrieved/scanned | $0.0000005 per trace per trace | first 1,000,000 traces retrieved/scanned free | — |
| Custom metrics (example rate) | $0.30 per custom metric per metric | first 10 custom metrics free | volume pricing tiers apply over 10,000 metrics |
| Database Insights API requests | All API calls up to 1 million calls per month are included without any charges per API request | 1 million calls per month | — |
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Plans
Free tier
month
Get started for free
Includes: 5 GB logs data; 10 custom metrics; 1 Million API requests; 3 custom dashboards; 10 alarm metrics; 1,800 minutes Live Tail; 100,000 X-Ray traces recorded; 100 canary runs
Live Tail
per-use
$0.01 per minute per minute
Includes: 1,800 minutes/month free
Log Centralization additional log copies
per-use
additional log copies cost $0.05/GB per GB
Includes: first log copy is free
Contributor Insights for PrivateLink rule
month
$9.00 per rule per month per rule
Includes: evaluating up to 50,000 endpoints
Publishing OpenTelemetry Metrics
per-use
$0.50 per GB ingested per GB ingested
Includes: includes 15 months of storage
PromQL query
per-use
$0.01 per million samples scanned per million samples scanned
Includes: console/dashboard queries free
PutMetricData requests
per-use
$0.01/M requests per million requests
Metric centralization additional copies
per-use
charged at $0.05/GB copied per GB copied
Includes: first copy to destination account free
Spans indexed as X-Ray trace summaries
per-use
$0.75 per million spans indexed after the first 1% of spans indexed at no charge per million spans indexed
Includes: first 1% of spans indexed free
Container Insights with OpenTelemetry for EKS
per-use
$0.08 per GB per GB ingested
Internet Monitoring monitored resources
per-use
$0.01 per resource per hour per resource per hour
Internet Monitoring city-networks
per-use
$0.74 per 10,000 monitored city-networks per hour per 10,000 city-networks per hour
Includes: first 100 city-networks free
X-Ray traces recorded
per-use
$0.000005 per trace per trace
Includes: first 100,000 traces/month free
X-Ray traces retrieved/scanned
per-use
$0.0000005 per trace per trace
Includes: first 1,000,000 traces retrieved/scanned free
Custom metrics (example rate)
month
$0.30 per custom metric per metric
Includes: first 10 custom metrics free
Overage: volume pricing tiers apply over 10,000 metrics
Database Insights API requests
month
All API calls up to 1 million calls per month are included without any charges per API request
Includes: 1 million calls per month
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