--- title: Amazon CloudWatch Reviews meta\_title: 'Amazon CloudWatch Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 404 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Amazon CloudWatch works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.3 review\_count: 404 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: IT Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-management --- # Amazon CloudWatch Reviews & Product Details Amazon CloudWatch is a comprehensive monitoring and observability service designed to provide real-time insights into AWS resources, on-premises servers, hybrid environments, and applications. It enables users to collect and track metrics, monitor log files, set alarms, and automatically react to changes in their AWS resources. By offering a unified view of operational health, CloudWatch helps organizations optimize application performance, manage resource utilization, and maintain system reliability. Key Features and Functionality: - Metrics Collection and Monitoring: Automatically collects and tracks metrics from over 70 AWS services, including Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, and AWS Lambda, providing up-to-the-minute data on resource performance. - Log Management: Aggregates and stores logs from various sources, such as AWS services and on-premises servers, facilitating real-time monitoring and analysis. - Alarms and Automated Actions: Allows users to set alarms based on predefined thresholds, triggering automated actions like scaling resources or sending notifications when specific conditions are met. - Dashboards and Visualization: Offers customizable dashboards that display metrics and logs, enabling users to visualize data and gain insights into system performance. - Application Performance Monitoring (APM): Provides tools like Application Signals and CloudWatch Synthetics to monitor application health, detect anomalies, and simulate user interactions for proactive issue detection. - Container and Serverless Monitoring: Includes features like Container Insights and Lambda Insights to monitor containerized applications and serverless functions, offering detailed performance metrics and diagnostics. Primary Value and Problem Solving: Amazon CloudWatch addresses the critical need for comprehensive monitoring and observability in modern IT environments. By consolidating metrics, logs, and events into a single platform, it eliminates the complexity of managing multiple monitoring tools. This integration enables faster detection and resolution of operational issues, reducing downtime and improving system reliability. CloudWatch's automated actions and alarms allow for proactive management of resources, ensuring optimal performance and cost efficiency. Additionally, its support for various environments, including on-premises and hybrid setups, makes it a versatile solution for diverse infrastructure monitoring needs. * * * Seller [Amazon Web Services (AWS)](https://www.g2.com/sellers/amazon-web-services-aws-3e93cc28-2e9b-4961-b258-c6ce0feec7dd) Discussions [Amazon CloudWatch Community](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-cloudwatch/discuss) Solution Type All-in-One Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 2 months ### Return on Investment 10 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-cloudwatch/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Datadog](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Datadog") Datadog 4.4/5(726) ](https://www.g2.com/products/datadog/reviews) [ ![Dynatrace](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Dynatrace") Dynatrace 4.5/5(1,366) ](https://www.g2.com/products/dynatrace/reviews) [ ![Splunk AppDynamics](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Splunk AppDynamics") Splunk AppDynamics 4.3/5(376) ](https://www.g2.com/products/splunk-appdynamics/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-cloudwatch/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 404 real user reviews. Implementation Time 2 months Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ## Amazon CloudWatch Integrations (64) What do users say about integrations? Integration information sourced from real user reviews. 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GK Gopi K. SDE-3 Hospital & Health Care Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/9/2024 "Deeply integrated with AWS needs improvements" 2.5/5 What do you like best about Amazon CloudWatch? 1. Provides near real-time monitoring and logs 2. Custom queries and dashboard customisations are available 3. Can be easily integrated with AWS lambda, SNS etc for alerting or creating workflows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon CloudWatch? 1. Cost: cost may increasing exponentially if lot of custom events are used. 2. Dashboard customisation are not at par with tools like kibana or grafana. 3. There is a steep learning curve for new developers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon CloudWatch solving and how is that benefiting you? 1. Alerting for AWS resources when CPU utilizations increases beyond threshold or if resources are under stress. 2. Real time monitoring of infrastructure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Gabriel M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Gabriel M.") GM Gabriel M. Infrastructure Analyst Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 9/1/2023 "CloudWatch has stopped in time" 2.5/5 What do you like best about Amazon CloudWatch? CloudWatch was good but they didn't provide any update that could be helpful last year. They have a good dashboard to follow your usage but poor documentation or features to provide any new solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon CloudWatch? With no updates, other solutions are becoming better than CloudWatch. Plus, we have the price that increases a lot while we need to output some data for other tools consuming that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon CloudWatch solving and how is that benefiting you? To provide ipsec vpn connection we used it to monitor the connections and the status that the vpn has. It was used as trigger to warning us about a lost connection or even a bandwidth limit usage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Games](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Games") AC Verified User in Computer Games Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/16/2021 "Basic logging lacks some features" 3/5 What do you like best about Amazon CloudWatch? No additional setup is needed for lambdas, ec2s, etc. console.log in Node logs to it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon CloudWatch? Lambda@edge logs are very difficult to find in Cloudwatch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon CloudWatch solving and how is that benefiting you? Logging Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Quan N.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Quan N.") QN Quan N. Software Engineer Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 3/25/2017 "Important monitoring service for your product " 3/5 What do you like best about Amazon CloudWatch? Amazon CloudWatch provides monitoring for AWS cloud resources and the applications customers run on AWS. + It is usefull to get an overview of data. + Ease to integration with AWS. + CloudWatch is low cost and allows us to get enterprise level monitoring. + Captures all the important data for your EC2 and EBS instances. Thus you can retrieve the bill info. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon CloudWatch? + Many of AWS services can't be use with CloudWatch such as S3... I don't know why. + The UI design can be better. + Exporting alarm / alerting data is not available for further post-processing or analysis + CloudWatch does not give you any recommendations, so you have to know what you're doing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudWatch: Adding more metrics so we can hook to more operational processes and information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon CloudWatch solving and how is that benefiting you? We use Cloudwatch to measure our usage in RDS and EC2 instances. It displays the current status of the suite and identify whats going on.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 5/3/2018 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Eric M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Eric M.") EM Eric M. End User Support/Product Specialist Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/5/2018 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Amazon Cloud Watch" 3/5 What do you like best about Amazon CloudWatch? I love how it automatically react to changes in your AWS resources such as Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon DynamoDB tables, and Amazon RDS DB instances, as well as custom metrics generated by your applications and services. Pretty cool stuff! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon CloudWatch? It only supports AWS Cloud Resources and apps that run on it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon CloudWatch solving and how is that benefiting you? Monitor applications to make sure they are running properly and to see what resources are being utilized the most to see if any changes need to be made. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") AI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 6/27/2018 "Cloudwatch review from IaaS customer" 3/5 What do you like best about Amazon CloudWatch? The way Cloudwatch easily hooks into our AWS IaaS deployment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon CloudWatch? Some of the logs and alerts are not presented in an easily readable format. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudWatch: If you use AWS, then use this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon CloudWatch solving and how is that benefiting you? It seems that sometimes our servers suffer internal errors and go offline. Using CloudWatch we can monitor this and restart those instances. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Telecommunications](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Telecommunications") UT Verified User in Telecommunications Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/11/2018 "Watching the Cloud" 3/5 What do you like best about Amazon CloudWatch? I am able to easily see much what is going on with my AWS Services - without having to build individual logging Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon CloudWatch? It doesn't log everything possible, but that would be unexpected if it could. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudWatch: Check it out if you're using AWS! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon CloudWatch solving and how is that benefiting you? Am able to debug and diagnose issues, and otherwise helps with sending messages to be able to explore output. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Services") CI Verified User in Information Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/23/2018 "Cloudwatch monitoring service" 3/5 What do you like best about Amazon CloudWatch? Easy to configure and best to use. It is best used to collect and track metrics , collect and monitor log files and alarms and automatically react to changes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon CloudWatch? Nothing as such but notifications are limited to email addresses when alot of us use slack pagerduty webhooks. The ui is prettty clunky Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon CloudWatch solving and how is that benefiting you? Monitors logs etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Mangold C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Mangold C.") MC Mangold C. Owner Medical Practice Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 2/15/2018 "The Less I Have to Worry, the Better" 3/5 What do you like best about Amazon CloudWatch? It is basically self-sustaining. There has yet to be a breach of confidentiality, and that is important in the medical field. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon CloudWatch? Not much. There is a learning curve, as with any software. But a lot of the technical difficulties are handled by the Amazon Support Center. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudWatch: Take into consideration not only confidentiality but also ease-of-use, especially with startup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon CloudWatch solving and how is that benefiting you? Basically, confidential record keeping. I run a medical clinic and that is the top priority. As I said above, there have been no problems with breaches and I assume there never will be any. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite BR Brian R. It speciallist Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 4/29/2018 "Amazon cloudwatch" 3/5 What do you like best about Amazon CloudWatch? it is set it is easy to use to monitor AWS usage and is fast to alert of any issues for a reasonable price Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon CloudWatch? The setup to get everything working in Harmony is a pain Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon CloudWatch solving and how is that benefiting you? Easy integration into AWS to monitor and control AWS usage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about Amazon CloudWatch? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. 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