--- 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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MS Mahesh S. Senior Software Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/19/2025 "Bridging, monitoring Made Easy with CloudWatch Integration" 4/5 What do you like best about Amazon CloudWatch? Using with cloudWatch it provided Centralized Monitoring and observation process like logs, automation, triggers action scaling with lambda, visualization process etc. and providing br Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon CloudWatch? Not like nothing bit sometime long integration and hard to understand process. And definately costly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon CloudWatch solving and how is that benefiting you? Without cloudwatch provide Realtime log so we identify easy and facts problem solving, fast to setup system using with increases operational speed, decrease cost etc. easy to move Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 7/30/2026 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![sai kiran narayana .](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "sai kiran narayana .") S sai kiran narayana . software engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/12/2025 "Essential Monitoring Made Easy with Seamless Integration" 4/5 What do you like best about Amazon CloudWatch? This is a good option for basic monitoring, allowing you to view and debug logs, as well as track metrics and alarms. You only need a basic understanding of AWS to get started. In general, most AWS services automatically send alerts to CloudWatch, which is also the case in our application. I use it daily to check production logs. We have integrated CloudWatch with Datadog to gain more effective insights. Setting up this integration is straightforward, much like working with other loggers such as SLF4J and Log4J. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon CloudWatch? I found it to be somewhat expensive compared to other software options, and I also thought the user interface was cluttered and difficult to understand. AWS CloudWatch offers only basic dashboards. In my opinion, a tool like Datadog might be a better alternative to this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon CloudWatch solving and how is that benefiting you? In my project, we rely on Amazon CloudWatch to monitor both application performance and logs. Our main priority is tracking server health and monitoring the latency of our APIs, which are developed using Spring Boot on the backend. CloudWatch enables us to quickly detect failures, particularly during times of high traffic. We have set up log configurations so that any issues trigger immediate notifications through alarms. At my workplace, we also use this service extensively for logging. We have several Spring Boot microservices built with Gradle, and for these, we use AWS CloudWatch as our primary logging tool. Additionally, in one of our Python projects, we utilized CloudWatch Logs for logging, integrating it with S3 and IAM. This integration allows us to track who uploads files and who modifies code, providing valuable insights into project activity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 1/21/2026 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") UI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/16/2025 "Powerful Log Querying and Dashboard Creation Made Easy" 4/5 What do you like best about Amazon CloudWatch? Ability to query the logs using Log Insight, Create the dashboards using logs for a quick view, search and debug using the stored logs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon CloudWatch? User interface could be improved to find things quickly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon CloudWatch solving and how is that benefiting you? We are using CloudWatch to store a lot of data related to application logs, WAF, Lambdas etc and have created some dashboard as well on top of that which allows us to do quick monitoring. Sort of like a health check, if you will. We often need to query some logs for debugging purposes and find some details, and I find log insight particularly helpful in this matter. For checking the details related to your production environment, I'd say this is a must-have if you are on an AWS tech stack Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Organic ![Heena B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Heena B.") HB Heena B. Executive Legal Assistant Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 4/30/2026 "Easy Custom Dashboards with Minimal Setup" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Amazon CloudWatch? Easy automated custom dashboard and minimal setups Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon CloudWatch? Often needs third parties tool, Limited dashboard, confusing pricing model Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon CloudWatch solving and how is that benefiting you? Lack of visibility into systems benefit single source of truth - faster debugging late detection of issues benefit catch problems early and reduce downtime Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Jayant kumar K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Jayant kumar K.") JK Jayant kumar K. fresher Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/26/2026 "Easy Monitoring with Helpful Automated Alerts" 4/5 What do you like best about Amazon CloudWatch? An Easy monitoring and automated alerts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon CloudWatch? The Complex setup and confusing dashboards Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon CloudWatch solving and how is that benefiting you? Amazon CloudWatch solves the problem of not knowing system health in real time. It benefits me by tracking performance, detecting issues early, and reducing downtime. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Som A.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Som A.") SA Som A. Director, Devops Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/26/2024 "Native monitoring tool for AWS" 4/5 What do you like best about Amazon CloudWatch? Natively all logs and metrics are available for all resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon CloudWatch? With trend in market, there are tools which gives out of box so many dashboards, anamolies, alerts, integrations, overall visibility about no# of logs, error count as a single panel which is good for someone who is managing overall infra to get a visibility/status. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon CloudWatch solving and how is that benefiting you? Not much, any organisation now a days uses 10+ AWS accounts, however for one to monitor, we need single account which gives consilidated view of logs/monitoring. Cloudwatch is so distributed that its impossible for one to get a global view. It could be good for individual user, but not good for a team who manages all the accounts and regions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic Review from User Profile ![Swathi N.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Swathi N.") SN Swathi N. Application Development Assosciate Manager Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 6/10/2024 "CloudWatch - The best tool for monitoring and error handling" 4/5 What do you like best about Amazon CloudWatch? CloudWatch helps with handling logs efficiently and debugging effortlessly. The CloudWatch dashboard is a one stop place for monitoring all of the AWS compute resources. CloudWatch alarms and triggers can be set to use the AWS resources cost effectively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon CloudWatch? Amazon CloudWatch has hidden cost with every dashboard and metric that gets created and used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon CloudWatch solving and how is that benefiting you? CloudWatch helps in monitoring all the AWS resources used in a single place. It helps handling all the logs flowing in the cloud environment. It helps my client to manage their cost in cloud services effectively as it displays detailed information on the cost involved in all the components of the AWS cloud ecosystem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Sagar S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sagar S.") SS Sagar S. SDE Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/6/2023 "Monitor your aws services actively with cloudwatch" 4/5 What do you like best about Amazon CloudWatch? AWS cloudwatch helps you monitor your aws services in realtime and maintain logs for them. With cloudwatch you can create metrics and charts over these logs and also add thresholds and alarms so that if some anamoly happens you can see the alarm and react quickly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon CloudWatch? Cloudwatch takes time to learn and to get the full use of it. Also cloudwatch don't support to add aggregation alarms and only support text form alarms and even that' snot very accurate. Cloudwatch log stream is not always on time. It might happen that some even occur and cloudwatch create an event for it after 30 mins and that can cause problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon CloudWatch solving and how is that benefiting you? Cloudwatch helps to create metrics and charts over aws services like ec2 machines and emr. Cloudwatch also helps us to see in details taht what heppend to the aws service in case if something fails and that gives us better understaing of our system and make it even more robust. It also helps us to create alarms and help us to handle problems in quciker way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic Review from User Profile ![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 Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 3/18/2024 "Best way to monitor resources on AWS" 4/5 What do you like best about Amazon CloudWatch? -Since it is part of the AWS services its very easy to gather insights and data from across all AWS tools -Easy to setup -Provides extensive reports, monitoring status in real time which can be very helpful for critical application and resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon CloudWatch? -Not much but I think filtering events can be little better Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon CloudWatch solving and how is that benefiting you? Cloudwatch helps with critical resources monitoring, resource utilization, resource access logs which can be really helpful for the network and resource security. We can also forward events from cloudwatch to S3 or other SIEM tool for auditing purpose. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 5/25/2023 "Average experience - does the job" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Amazon CloudWatch? Amazon Cloudwatch is extremely useful for infra metrics on aws for ec2, OpenSearch, document db or any other DB. It has good integration with Slack and alerting software, and it is quite easy to set up thresholds without learning any query languages like nrql for New Relic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon CloudWatch? It has a very plain UI, graphs are not well rendered, and one more issue is that it doesn't provide any trend information like new relic does on all its time series data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon CloudWatch solving and how is that benefiting you? CloudWatch is monitoring tool for all AWS products. It can be used to visualize any infra metric like CPU, memory , network ingress, network egress etc on EC2 to no of connections, storage on databases. IT also helps in setting up thresholds to help us find and fix any issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about Amazon CloudWatch? 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