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Amazon CloudWatch vs Papertrail

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

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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

Papertrail

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USD · US · source: www.papertrail.com

Plan Pricing Charged by Offer type
Log Observability Highlighted
USD 5 per GB

Starts at: $5.00 Per GB per month*

 Usage · Per GB per month Standalone · Usage based

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

Papertrail

Log Observability

Highlights

Intuitive Web-based log viewer

Included

Highlights

Team-wide groups & searches

Included

Highlights

Unlimited systems & users

Included

Highlights

Encrypted logging

Included

Highlights

Long-term archive

Included

Highlights

REST API

Included

Highlights

Search alerts

Included

How their prices changed

Each date shows when a public price was observed, not when it took effect. An archived region or currency can differ, so a currency change is not necessarily a price increase.