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Compare Amazon CloudWatch and Elastic Observability 
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At a Glance
Market Segments
Enterprise (38.7% of reviews)
Enterprise (45.6% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
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Pay As You Go Per Month
Amazon CloudWatch
Star Rating
(392)4.3 out of 5
Market Segments
Enterprise (38.7% of reviews)
Pros & Cons
Entry-Level Pricing
No pricing available
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Star Rating
(81)4.2 out of 5
Market Segments
Enterprise (45.6% of reviews)
Pros & Cons
Entry-Level Pricing
Pay As You Go Per Month
Free Trial is available
Browse all 3 pricing plansAmazon CloudWatch vs Elastic Observability
When assessing the two solutions, reviewers found Amazon CloudWatch easier to use, set up, and administer. Reviewers also preferred doing business with Amazon CloudWatch overall.
- Reviewers felt that Elastic Observability meets the needs of their business better than Amazon CloudWatch.
- When comparing quality of ongoing product support, reviewers felt that Amazon CloudWatch is the preferred option.
- For feature updates and roadmaps, our reviewers preferred the direction of Amazon CloudWatch over Elastic Observability.
Pricing
Entry-Level Pricing
Amazon CloudWatch
No pricing availableElastic Observability
Elastic Cloud Serverless
Pay As You Go
Per Month
A fully automated, usage-based platform. Ideal for variable workloads where compute scales independently from storage, requiring zero capacity planning or infrastructure management.
- No-ops management: Elastic handles all upgrades and scaling
- Decoupled compute and storage scaling
- Specialized VCUs for Ingest, Search, and Machine Learning
Free Trial
Amazon CloudWatch
No trial information availableElastic Observability
Free Trial is available
Ratings
Meets Requirements
8.5
301
8.7
61
Ease of Use
8.1
301
7.2
63
Ease of Setup
8.4
159
6.6
20
Ease of Admin
8.5
148
6.6
19
Quality of Support
8.3
276
7.5
53
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
8.7
140
7.6
15
Product Direction (% positive)
8.2
291
7.7
62
Features by Category
Operations
8.7
47
Not enough data
8.7
51
Not enough data
7.5
40
Not enough data
8.6
55
Not enough data
Cost Optimization
8.5
42
Not enough data
7.8
42
Not enough data
8.0
45
Not enough data
Administration
8.4
56
Not enough data
7.9
59
Not enough data
8.3
47
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Cloud Cost Management
Not enough data
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Not enough data
Functionality
Not enough data
Not enough data
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Agentic AI - Website Monitoring
Not enough data
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Not enough data
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Monitoring
9.0
43
Not enough data
8.6
40
Not enough data
8.2
39
Not enough data
8.6
41
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Administration
8.9
38
Not enough data
7.3
30
Not enough data
7.9
34
Not enough data
8.0
5
Not enough data
Analysis
8.1
36
Not enough data
8.0
39
Not enough data
8.1
32
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
7.8
6
Not enough data
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AI Automation - Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring
Not enough data
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Functionality
Not enough data
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Issue Resolution
Not enough data
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Management
Not enough data
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Generative AI
Not enough data
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Not enough data
Agentic AI - AIOps Platforms
Not enough data
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Visibility
Not enough data
9.2
6
Not enough data
8.3
6
Not enough data
7.8
6
Monitoring and Management
Not enough data
9.0
5
Not enough data
7.8
6
Not enough data
8.9
6
Agentic AI - Log Monitoring
Not enough data
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Data Sources
Not enough data
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Analytics
Not enough data
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Metrics
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
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Not enough data
Not enough data
Data Preparation
Not enough data
8.7
5
Not enough data
9.0
5
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Analysis
Not enough data
9.0
5
Not enough data
8.7
5
Not enough data
8.7
5
Not enough data
9.3
5
Not enough data
8.7
5
Not enough data
Not enough data
Visualization
Not enough data
9.3
5
Not enough data
9.7
5
Agentic AI - Log Analysis
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
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Application Performance Monitoring (APM)Hide 19 FeaturesShow 19 Features
Not enough data
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Monitoring
Not enough data
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Response
Not enough data
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Agentic AI - Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Not enough data
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Performance
Not enough data
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Functionality
Not enough data
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Categories
Categories
Shared Categories
Amazon CloudWatch and Elastic Observability are categorized as Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring
Unique Categories
Amazon CloudWatch is categorized as Cloud Cost Management
Elastic Observability is categorized as Log Analysis, Log Monitoring, IoT Analytics Platforms, Application Performance Monitoring (APM), Website Monitoring, and AIOps Platforms
Reviews
Reviewers' Company Size
Amazon CloudWatch
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Elastic Observability
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Small-Business
(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market
(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise
(> 1000 emp.)
Reviewers' Industry
Information Technology and Services
25.9%
Computer Software
18.2%
Internet
6.6%
Financial Services
4.0%
Marketing and Advertising
3.4%
Other
41.9%
Information Technology and Services
26.6%
Computer Software
21.5%
Internet
7.6%
Retail
3.8%
Marketing and Advertising
3.8%
Other
36.7%
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Discussions
What is AWS CloudWatch metrics?
1 Comment
IO
The metrics of AWS CloudWatch are numerical data that represent the performance and state of Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources. They are collected from...Read more
What can CloudWatch monitor?
1 Comment
GM
Every resource in AWS environment and on-premises tooRead more
Amazon CloudWatch has no more discussions with answers
what is the best way to sync data with elastic search from SQL server
3 Comments
AT
Write a process that convert each line into Json format and load it into ElasticSearchRead more
Do elastic search use indexes to store the information.
1 Comment
AD
I'll take a stab at answering this question though I'm not 100% sure exactly what you are after.
The way I would explain it is that in elasticsearch an...Read more
Can I use Elasticsearch for free?
1 Comment
GO
https://www.elastic.co/pricing/faq
Self-Managed: Yes. From the very beginning, the Elastic Stack — Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash — has been...Read more
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