Reduce Amazon CloudWatch costs with these tips
Monitor resources and applications
Amazon CloudWatch cost saving tips
Optimize your Amazon CloudWatch costs with these tips
Monitor CloudWatch Costs
Keep track of your Amazon CloudWatch usage and costs with tools such as AWS Cost Explorer and Cost and Usage Reports. This can help identify ways to optimize services and curb costs.
Deprovision Unused Alarms
Make sure to deprovision any CloudWatch alarms, metrics, logs or other resources that are no longer needed. Unused resources can continue to generate unnecessary costs.
Optimize Log Retention
Setting optimal log retention periods and metric storage durations in CloudWatch Logs and CloudWatch can reduce storage costs. Tailor these settings according to your specific use cases.
Service information & pricing
About Amazon CloudWatch
- About Amazon CloudWatch
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Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring service providing insights for AWS/cloud resources. It gathers and analyzes performance and operational data, facilitating application, infrastructure, and service monitoring from one platform. It supports automated actions based on alarms, logs, and events for resource optimization. CloudWatch delivers one-second visibility of metrics/data, stores data for 15 months, does calculations for historical/real-time insights, and offers Container Insights.
- Amazon CloudWatch pricing
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Amazon CloudWatch has a free version offering basic monitoring, 10 metrics, 1M API requests, 3 dashboards, 10 alarm metrics, 5GB log data & 1,800 Live Tail minutes. The paid version charges for data ingestion, storage, scanned data, and live tail analysis, with rates per GB. Extra costs are dependent on the volume of data sent to CloudWatch logs, S3, or Kinesis Data Firehose. There are no upfront payments; it's usage-based.