--- description: Learn more about Amazon CloudWatch price, benefits, and disadvantages for businesses in New Zealand. Read verified software reviews and find tools that fit your business needs. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/capterra/og_logo-e5a8c001ed0bd1bb922639230fcea71a.png?auto=format%2Cenhance%2Ccompress title: Amazon CloudWatch Pricing, Reviews & Features - Capterra New Zealand 2026 --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Website Monitoring Software](/directory/10021/website-monitoring/software) > [Amazon CloudWatch](/software/204333/amazon-cloudwatch) # Amazon CloudWatch Canonical: https://www.capterra.co.nz/software/204333/amazon-cloudwatch Page: 1 / 5\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.co.nz/software/204333/amazon-cloudwatch?page=2) > Observability of your AWS resources and applications on AWS and on-premises > > Verdict: Rated **4.5/5** by 94 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Overview ### Who Uses Amazon CloudWatch? IT admins, IT managers, Developers, Systems Engineers, Cloud Architects, Cloud Developers, Cloud Infrastructure Security teams, Infrastructure, Security, \& Deployment teams ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.5/5** | 94 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 80% | (8/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Amazon Web Services - **Location**: Seattle, US - **Founded**: 2006 ## Commercial Context - **Pricing model**: Per Feature (Free version available) - **Pricing Details**: No up-front commitment or minimum fee; you simply pay for what you use. - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop) - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: United States ## Features - Access Controls/Permissions - Alerts/Notifications - Asset Discovery - Availability Testing - Dashboard - Event Logs - Monitoring - Performance Analysis - Performance Metrics - Policy Management - Prioritisation - Real-Time Monitoring - Release Management - Resource Management - Risk Management - Root Cause Analysis - Server Monitoring - Service Level Agreement (SLA) Management - Uptime Reporting - Vulnerability Assessment ## Integrations (8 total) - AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) - AWS Key Management Service (KMS) - AWS Lambda - Amazon API Gateway - Amazon DynamoDB - Amazon EC2 - Amazon ECS - Amazon S3 ## Support Options - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat ## Category - [Website Monitoring Software](https://www.capterra.co.nz/directory/10021/website-monitoring/software) ## Related Categories - [Website Monitoring Software](https://www.capterra.co.nz/directory/10021/website-monitoring/software) - [Cloud Integration Software](https://www.capterra.co.nz/directory/30852/cloud-management/software) - [Vulnerability Management Software](https://www.capterra.co.nz/directory/31062/vulnerability-management/software) - [DevOps Tools](https://www.capterra.co.nz/directory/31120/devops/software) - [Application Performance Management Tools](https://www.capterra.co.nz/directory/30208/application-performance-management-software/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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You always need expert's help to understand the cost. ----- ### "Lots to watch with cloudwatch" — 4.0/5 > **Ash** | *22 May 2025* | Entertainment | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10 > > **Pros**: The wide range of options and granularity your able to set on monitors and alerts allows accurate data to be served. > > **Cons**: It can be complex to setup and there should be some easier options to start with and build from for some use cases. > > It's a good solution and makes managing and monitoring most amazon services and some external ones accurate. ----- ### "Reliable monitoring and logging for everyday debugging" — 4.0/5 > **Hrithik** | *26 June 2026* | Financial Services | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: CloudWatch has been really helpful whenever I need to troubleshoot issues or verify that a deployment is behaving as expected. Having application logs, metrics, and alarms in one place makes it much easier to figure out what's going on without jumping between multiple tools. Since it's part of the AWS ecosystem, it integrates well with the rest of our infrastructure and has been reliable in day-to-day use. > > **Cons**: The interface isn't always the easiest to navigate, especially when trying to search through a large number of log streams. Some features also have a learning curve when new to AWS, and it's easy to lose track of log retention and costs if they aren't managed carefully. > > My experience with CloudWatch has been positive overall. I mostly use it while investigating issues, checking application logs, and confirming that services are running as expected after changes. It's become one of the tools I instinctively open when debugging because it provides the information I need quickly. While the UI could be more intuitive, it's a dependable monitoring platform that integrates well with AWS and does its job well. ----- ### "Integration within AWS is great, cost transparency is poor, dashboards are a thumbs down" — 3.0/5 > **☁️ 👩‍💻 M** | *21 May 2025* | Telecommunications | Recommendation rating: 4.0/10 > > **Pros**: I like the integrations. For example, the integration between AWS ECS and memory utilization CloudWatch alarms. Another example, I like the integration between CloudWatch insights and WAFs logs. That is helpful. > > **Cons**: AWS has great services, but CloudWatch isn't one of them. It is noisy, and cannot mute scaling instances/containers automatically. There's better monitoring/observability software out there. Also, CloudWatch is probably one of the more expensive AWS services out there. I would like to see more transparency on where these CloudWatch costs are coming from. I do not like the dashboard prices. Visualization isn't sleek. > > Overall, there's better monitoring software out there. The dashboards are not visually appealing. I would like to see more cost transparency. I do like the integrations with the other AWS services like ECS and WAF. ----- ### "The way to monitor your AWS" — 5.0/5 > **Ilya** | *2 May 2026* | Computer & Network Security | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: Allows you to monitor basically almost every service in AWS, and assign alerts to services you want to be alerted on > > **Cons**: There is a quite large learning curve, and easy to get lost in the configurations of the alerts you want to set for your services ----- Page: 1 / 5\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.co.nz/software/204333/amazon-cloudwatch?page=2) ## Links - [View on Capterra](https://www.capterra.co.nz/software/204333/amazon-cloudwatch) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | en | | | en-AE | | | en-AU | | | en-CA | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-IL | | | en-IN | | | en-NZ | | | en-SG | | | en-ZA | | | fr | | | fr-BE | | | fr-CA | | | fr-LU | | | it | | | nl | | | nl-BE | | ----- ## Structured Data