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Amazon CloudWatch vs OpenObserve

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

USD · US · source: openobserve.ai

Plan Pricing Charged by Offer type
Cloud Professional Highlighted
USD 0 per GB ingested

$0.50 /GB ingested + $0.01/GB queried · billed monthly. Ingestion $0.50 per GB*. Query $0.01 per GB. *Includes 30% discount for annual commitment

Usage · /GB ingested Standalone · Usage based
Enterprise
Contact sales

Custom scale & compliance. Custom volume discounts, BYOB. Talk to Sales

Other 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

OpenObserve

Cloud Professional

Highlights

Logs, Metrics, Traces, RUM, Session Replay, Error tracking

Included

Included Retention

Metrics retention

15 Months

Included

Included Retention

Non metrics (Logs, Traces and etc.) retention

30-Days

Included

Enterprise

Highlights

Infinite retention - BYOB (Bring your own bucket)

Included

Highlights

Pipelines

Included

Highlights

Sensitive Data Redaction

Included

Highlights

AI-Powered Observability

Included

Highlights

Incident Management & AI SRE Agent

Included

Highlights

AI Assistant

Included

Highlights

Audit Trail

Included

Highlights

Unlimited Users

Included

Highlights

Single Sign-On (SSO)

Included

Highlights

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

Included

Highlights

Premium support

Included

Highlights

Deployment flexibility (Public Cloud, or Bring Your Own Cloud)

Included

Highlights

Architecture reviews

Included

Highlights

Volume discounts

Included

Highlights

SLAs

Included

How their prices changed

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