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Amazon CloudWatch vs Netdata Cloud

See how their public offers line up before you choose your own position. Prices stay in the currency, billing schedule, and charged unit each vendor publishes.

Amazon CloudWatch

USD · US · source: aws.amazon.com

Plan Pricing Charged by Offer type
Free Tier
Free

Free tier

Usage · monthly free allowances Standalone · Free
Pay as you go
USD 0.3 monthly

$0.30 per custom metric/month at the first paid tier in US East

Usage · per custom metric per month Standalone · Usage based

Netdata Cloud

USD · US · source: www.netdata.cloud

Plan Pricing Charged by Offer type
Community
Free

Free

Flat Standalone · Free
Business Highlighted
USD 4.5 / month with annual commitment

$4.50 /node/month

Unit · node Standalone · Fixed
Enterprise On-Premise
Contact sales

Contact Us Starts at 200 node licenses

Unit · node licenses Standalone · Contact sales

What each plan includes

Feature names follow each vendor’s own pricing page, so verify the wording before treating them as exact equivalents.

Amazon CloudWatch

Free Tier

Plan card

Logs

5 GB

Included

Plan card

Custom metrics

10

Included

Plan card

Custom dashboards

3

Included

Pay as you go

Plan card

Live Tail overage

$0.01/minute

Included

Plan card

OpenTelemetry metrics ingest

$0.50/GB

Included

Plan card

Volume-tiered usage pricing

Included

Netdata Cloud

Community

Highlights

Max 5 Active Connected Nodes

5

Limited

Highlights

Max 1 Active Custom Dashboards (per Room)

1

Limited

Highlights

Securely access your dashboards from anywhere in the world

Included

Highlights

Visualize alerts from across your infrastructure centrally

Included

Highlights

Organize your infrastructure into rooms

Included

Features

Netdata AI (Automated Troubleshooting, Investigations and Reports)

Excluded

Features

Role Based Access Control (RBAC)

Excluded

Features

Centralized Configuration Management

Excluded

Features

Enterprise Single Sign On (Okta, OpenID SSO)

Excluded

Features

System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM)

Excluded

Features

Infrastructure wide Dashboards

Limited to 5 nodes

Limited

Features

Custom Dashboards

Limited to 1 per Room

Limited

Features

Customizable charts

Included

Business

Highlights

Unlimited Metrics & Logs

Unlimited

Included

Highlights

Unlimited Custom Dashboards

Unlimited

Included

Highlights

Unlimited Data Retention

Unlimited

Included

Highlights

Netdata AI (Investigate, troubleshoot and generate reports automatically)

Included

Highlights

Role-based access with fine-grained permissioning (RBAC)

Included

Highlights

Single Sign-On (SSO)

Included

Highlights

System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM)

Included

Highlights

Centralized Configuration Management

Included

Highlights

Enterprise Notification Integrations (MS Teams, Slack, PagerDuty & more)

Included

Highlights

Audit logs - Trace system activities for security and compliance monitoring.

Included

Features

Infrastructure wide Dashboards

Included

Features

Customizable charts

Included

Enterprise On-Premise

Highlights

Everything in Netdata Business

Included

Highlights

All components hosted fully on your premises

Included

Highlights

Ideal for air-gapped facilities & critical infrastructure

Included

Highlights

Priority Customer Support plans available

Included

Highlights

Enable the customization that your organization requires

Included

Features

Netdata AI (Automated Troubleshooting, Investigations and Reports)

Included

Features

Role Based Access Control (RBAC)

Included

Features

Centralized Configuration Management

Included

Features

Enterprise Single Sign On (Okta, OpenID SSO)

Included

Features

System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM)

Included

Features

Infrastructure wide Dashboards

Included

Features

Custom Dashboards

Included

Features

Customizable charts

Included

How their prices changed

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