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Cloudwatch Plans Pricing
Cloudwatch Plans Pricing is the pricing profile for AWS CloudWatch on the APIs.io network — every figure transcribed verbatim from the provider’s own pricing page on 2026-10-28.
It defines 15 plans, including Free tier — You can get started with Amazon CloudWatch for free.; Logs - Live Tail — $0.01 per minute; Log Centralization additional copies — additional log copies cost $0.05/GB, and 12 more.
The page prices API or platform usage directly, priced by usage; the service is delivered as managed.
Tagged areas include Alarms, Amazon Web Services, Dashboards, Logs, and Metrics.
15 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 | You can get started with Amazon CloudWatch for free. | Logs 5 GB Data (ingestion, archive storage, and data scanned by Logs Insights queries); 1,800 minutes of Live Tail usage per month; 10 Metrics; 1 Million API requests; 3 Custom Dashboards; 10 Alarm metrics; 100,000 X-Ray traces recorded; 100 canary runs per month | — |
| Logs - Live Tail | $0.01 per minute per minute | 1,800 minutes free per month | — |
| Log Centralization additional copies | additional log copies cost $0.05/GB per GB | first log copy is free | — |
| 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 | Queries executed through the CloudWatch console, including dashboards, are free of charge | — |
| 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 | — |
| Contributor Insights for PrivateLink rule | $9.00 per rule per month per rule | evaluating up to 50,000 endpoints | — |
| 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 at no charge | — |
| 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 | — |
| Custom metrics (example rate) | $0.30 per custom metric per metric | — | Once you exceed 10,000 total metrics then volume pricing tiers will apply |
| X-Ray traces recorded (example) | $0.000005 per trace recorded | first 100,000 traces each month free | — |
| 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 | API requests beyond the included 1 million calls per month limit are charged |
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Plans
Free tier
month
You can get started with Amazon CloudWatch for free.
Includes: Logs 5 GB Data (ingestion, archive storage, and data scanned by Logs Insights queries); 1,800 minutes of Live Tail usage per month; 10 Metrics; 1 Million API requests; 3 Custom Dashboards; 10 Alarm metrics; 100,000 X-Ray traces recorded; 100 canary runs per month
Logs - Live Tail
per-use
$0.01 per minute per minute
Includes: 1,800 minutes free per month
Log Centralization additional copies
per-use
additional log copies cost $0.05/GB per GB
Includes: first log copy is free
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: Queries executed through the CloudWatch console, including dashboards, are free of charge
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
Contributor Insights for PrivateLink rule
month
$9.00 per rule per month per rule
Includes: evaluating up to 50,000 endpoints
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 at no charge
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
Custom metrics (example rate)
month
$0.30 per custom metric per metric
Overage: Once you exceed 10,000 total metrics then volume pricing tiers will apply
X-Ray traces recorded (example)
per-use
$0.000005 per trace recorded
Includes: first 100,000 traces each month free
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
Overage: API requests beyond the included 1 million calls per month limit are charged
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