{"id":23163,"date":"2021-07-16T23:50:21","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T05:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/?p=23163"},"modified":"2021-07-23T23:23:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T04:53:19","slug":"aws-cloudwatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/blog\/aws-cloudwatch\/","title":{"rendered":"What is AWS CloudWatch?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>AWS CloudWatch<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0is an observability and monitoring service by Amazon. It is particularly brought into action for the DevOps engineers, SREs, IT Managers, and usual developers to keep track of actionable insights for application monitoring. Apart from that, it is also used for responding to changes within the system performances and resource utilization.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AWS CloudWatch has the potential to collect the data as metrics, events, and logs. All the operational and monitoring data collected by CloudWatch are of the apps, services, and resources running over AWS. There is more to this service that has helped developers up their game. And, this article is all about enhancing your knowledge upon all of the core aspects of it.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_76 ez-toc-wrap-left counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #ea7e02;color:#ea7e02\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #ea7e02;color:#ea7e02\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/blog\/aws-cloudwatch\/#The_Functionality_of_AWS_CloudWatch\" >The Functionality of AWS CloudWatch<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/blog\/aws-cloudwatch\/#How_to_Monitor_AWS_Resources_Using_AWS_CloudWatch\" >How to Monitor AWS Resources Using AWS CloudWatch?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/blog\/aws-cloudwatch\/#Potential_of_CloudWatch_to_Monitor_Custom-Metrics\" >Potential of CloudWatch to Monitor Custom-Metrics<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/blog\/aws-cloudwatch\/#Features_and_Capabilities_of_AWS_CloudWatch\" >Features and Capabilities of AWS CloudWatch<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/blog\/aws-cloudwatch\/#Operational_View_with_the_Dashboards\" >Operational View with the Dashboards<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/blog\/aws-cloudwatch\/#Auto_Scaling\" >Auto Scaling<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/blog\/aws-cloudwatch\/#Alarming_Automating_Actions_on_k8_ECS_and_EKS_Clusters\" >Alarming &amp; Automating Actions on k8, ECS, and EKS Clusters<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/blog\/aws-cloudwatch\/#Compliance_Security\" >Compliance &amp; Security<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/blog\/aws-cloudwatch\/#Checking_the_CloudWatch_Logs\" >Checking the CloudWatch Logs<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-10\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/blog\/aws-cloudwatch\/#Pricing_of_AWS_CloudWatch_on_Different_Aspects\" >Pricing of AWS CloudWatch on Different Aspects<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-11\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/blog\/aws-cloudwatch\/#Free_Tier_of_AWS_CloudWatch\" >Free Tier of AWS CloudWatch<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-12\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/blog\/aws-cloudwatch\/#Paid_Tier_of_AWS_CloudWatch\" >Paid Tier of AWS CloudWatch<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-13\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/blog\/aws-cloudwatch\/#Bottom_Line\" >Bottom Line<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Functionality_of_AWS_CloudWatch\"><\/span><b>The Functionality of AWS CloudWatch<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-79412\" src=\"https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-Amazon-CloudWatch-works.png\" alt=\"The functionality of AWS CloudWatch\" width=\"2240\" height=\"1260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-Amazon-CloudWatch-works.png 2240w, https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-Amazon-CloudWatch-works-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-Amazon-CloudWatch-works-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-Amazon-CloudWatch-works-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-Amazon-CloudWatch-works-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-Amazon-CloudWatch-works-2048x1152.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-Amazon-CloudWatch-works-747x420.png 747w, https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-Amazon-CloudWatch-works-640x360.png 640w, https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-Amazon-CloudWatch-works-681x383.png 681w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2240px) 100vw, 2240px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In better terms,\u00a0<\/span><b>AWS CloudWatch<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0is a repository of metrics! Amazon EC2 puts up the metrics into the repository for retrieving statistics based upon the metrics. Developers can use such metrics and statistics to form a graphical representation within the CloudWatch console.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Along with that, AWS CloudWatch allows you to implement alarming actions for starting, stopping, and terminating the EC2 instance if a criterion is met. Apart from that, developers can also <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AmazonCloudWatch\/latest\/monitoring\/cloudwatch_concepts.html#CloudWatchAlarms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">create alarms<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0for initiating Amazon SNS and Amazon EC2 auto-scaling actions for you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AWS CloudWatch is proficient in monitoring the resources of the service of AWS that involves Amazon RDS DB instances, Amazon DynamoDB tables, and Amazon EC2 instances. Apart from that, it also helps to monitor all of the custom metrics that are generated by your services and applications. Any log files that your apps generate can also be monitored within the\u00a0<\/span><b>AWS CloudWatch<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0console.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With this service, you can ensure that resource utilization, operational health, and application performance visibility are expanded and tracked seamlessly. These insights are responsible for maintaining a smooth run for your applications over the AWS environment.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_to_Monitor_AWS_Resources_Using_AWS_CloudWatch\"><\/span><b>How to Monitor AWS Resources Using AWS CloudWatch?<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Monitoring the instances with the help of AWS CloudWatch involves the concepts of collecting and processing the raw data from EC2 into real-time and readable metrics. All of these statistics measured with the help of CloudWatch are recorded for around 15 months. It allows you to get a better insight into how your web app is performing over time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon EC2 sends the metric data or insight to AWS CloudWatch within periods of 5-minute. If you wish to send the metric data within a 1-minute period, then you need to enable the detailed monitoring aspects upon the instance. The EC2 console will display graphs made out of the raw data of CloudWatch. You can prefer to get data or graphs, depending upon your preference for monitoring them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The configuration of\u00a0<\/span><b>AWS CloudWatch<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0is ideal for configuration with EC2, which results in two monitoring levels or capabilities that include basic monitoring and detailed monitoring. Basic monitoring comprises 7 pre-select metrics and 3 status-check metrics. These metrics are produced at 5-minute and 1-minute intervals. In addition to that, you do not have to pay any extra fee for the same.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The detailed monitoring is offered with additional charges because it increases the frequency count of producing all of the metrics at 1-minute intervals. The other services that your AWS CloudWatch can automatically monitor include EBS, RDS Database instances. SNS Topics and SQS Queues.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Potential_of_CloudWatch_to_Monitor_Custom-Metrics\"><\/span><b>Potential of CloudWatch to Monitor Custom-Metrics<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AWS CloudWatch has the potential to monitor all of the custom metrics within the paid tier. It collects all of the data that is produced by the scripts, applications, and services. Not just that, but it can also collect or include almost anything from the application work executions and web page loading times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For getting started with monitoring the custom metrics, one should use PutMetricData API on priority. It is the most convenient way to commence with this monitoring aspect. But, there are many other tools and apps that are destined to be used for commencing with the purpose of monitoring custom metrics over CloudWatch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Amazon CloudWatch<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0monitoring of the custom metrics upon the applications allows you to keep track of the operational performances, troubleshoot the issues, spot the trends, and other such optimizations. User activity upon the applications is one of the prominent examples of custom metrics that can be collected and monitored over a period of time for diverse utilizations.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Features_and_Capabilities_of_AWS_CloudWatch\"><\/span><b>Features and Capabilities of AWS CloudWatch<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The best thing about\u00a0<\/span><b>AWS CloudWatch<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0is that it automatically triggers the monitoring aspects of the platform. But its enhanced potential extends up to other capabilities that are highlighted in terms of features. The features of AWS CloudWatch includes:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Operational_View_with_the_Dashboards\"><\/span><b>Operational View with the Dashboards<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The dashboards within the AWS CloudWatch enable you to create graphs (re-usable) and also visualize the cloud apps and resources in an optimized view. With it, you can graph the logs and metrics side-by-side within a single dashboard for quickly getting the context of it and identifying the problems. Hence, you can easily and effectively reach the root cause of the problem and effectively rectify it at once.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some of the key metrics that you can visualize, include CPU utilization, memory utilization, capacity comparison, and others. Correlation of the log pattern can also be executed as per the specific metrics, and alarms can also be set for alerting operational and performance issues. System-wide visibility over the dashboard intends to help you observe the operational ability and health of the functions, and it will help you reduce the MTTR (Mean Time to Resolution).<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Auto_Scaling\"><\/span><b>Auto Scaling<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Auto Scaling function of the AWS CloudWatch intends to automate the resource planning and capacity aspects. One can make a threshold to alarm on the key metrics and trigger the auto-scaling action automatically. For instance, you have the potential to set up a workflow for auto-scaling and add or remove respective EC2 instances upon the metrics of CPU utilization. Hence, it helps optimize all of the resource costs within CloudWatch.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Alarming_Automating_Actions_on_k8_ECS_and_EKS_Clusters\"><\/span><b>Alarming &amp; Automating Actions on k8, ECS, and EKS Clusters<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The container insights within k8 and EKS clusters enable you to alarm the compute metrics for triggering the auto-scaling policies over the Amazon EC2 scaling group. It also offers the ability to reboot, terminate, recover and stop any of the EC2 instances. For the ECS clusters, you can use the compute metrics from your services and tasks directly for the Service Auto Scaling.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Compliance_Security\"><\/span><b>Compliance &amp; Security<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just like any other AWS service, CloudWatch is also proficient with high-end security and compliance. It is integrated with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) for controlling the resources and users with permission of data accessibility. Along with that, CloudWatch has also integrated with FedRamp and PCI compliance for added security. Under it, the data is encrypted at both rest and transfer. In addition to that, you can also use KMS encryption of AWS for encrypting all of the log groups for more enhanced security of data.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These are just a few of the core features of <\/span><b>AWS CloudWatch<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, that enlightens its efficacy. For more added information on all of the features of CloudWatch,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/cloudwatch\/features\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">refer to this link<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">!<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Checking_the_CloudWatch_Logs\"><\/span><b>Checking the CloudWatch Logs<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here are the easy and direct steps that you can follow in order to check the CloudWatch logs:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Access your CloudWatch Console.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Select the tab \u2018Log groups\u2019 from the dedicated navigation window.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Select the log group that you wish to review and check the streams.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pick the name of the log amongst the listed ones within the group.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Expand the events within that log!<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<blockquote><p>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/blog\/aws-cloudwatch-logs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to set up AWS CloudWatch Logs?<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Pricing_of_AWS_CloudWatch_on_Different_Aspects\"><\/span><b>Pricing of AWS CloudWatch on Different Aspects<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AWS CloudWatch is available for developers at no up-front commitment fee. The users need to pay for only what they use within the service, and the billing is usually at the end of every month. But even before you can head to the paid tier of AWS CloudWatch, you can experience the perks of it over the free tier. You need to understand that the pricing of the <\/span><b>AWS CloudWatch<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> service is variable, depending upon the regions, and can also change depending upon several factors over time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before heading towards the detailed insight into the paid tier, let\u2019s explore the availability of resources within the free tier:<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Free_Tier_of_AWS_CloudWatch\"><\/span><b>Free Tier of AWS CloudWatch<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most of the Amazon Services, such as S3, Kinesis, EC2, and others, are destined to send valuable metrics for free onto CloudWatch. The process of sending insights is automatic without any external efforts. Most of the applications should be destined to operate seamlessly over these free tier limits. Get an idea about the free tier of AWS by\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/free\/?all-free-tier.sort-by=item.additionalFields.SortRank&amp;all-free-tier.sort-order=asc&amp;awsf.Free%20Tier%20Types=*all&amp;awsf.Free%20Tier%20Categories=*all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">referring to this link!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The perks that you get upon using the free tier of\u00a0<\/span><b>Amazon CloudWatch<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0are as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Basic monitoring metrics at 5-minute frequency.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10 detailed monitoring of the metrics, at 1-minute frequency<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It supports one million API requests. But it is not applicable to GetMetricWidgetImage and GetMetricData.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You get 3 dashboards with up to 50 metrics every month.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You get ten metrics for alarms. But you cannot integrate the same for high-resolution scenarios.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All of the events are inclusive within the free tier, except the custom events.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You get 5GB space for data ingestion, archiving storage, or storing data that are scanned by the Logs Insights queries.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You get one contributor insights rule every month.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You also get 100 canary runs every month.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These are all you get within the free tier of\u00a0<\/span><b>Amazon CloudWatch<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which is more than sufficient for most of your applications.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Paid_Tier_of_AWS_CloudWatch\"><\/span><b>Paid Tier of AWS CloudWatch<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As stated above, you only need to pay for what you use over AWS CloudWatch, and nothing up-front. <\/span><b>AWS CloudWatch<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is offering you a\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/calculator.aws\/#\/createCalculator\/CloudWatch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">price calculator<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0to let you calculate the architecture and CloudWatch cost within a single estimate. But, here are some of the preset amounts that you will be charged within the paid tier.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<h4><b> Charges as per the Metrics<\/b><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You need to pay $0.30 per metric per month for the first 10,000 metrics.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the next 240,000 metrics, you will have to pay $0.10 per metric per month.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the next 750,000 metrics, you will have to pay $0.05 per metric per month.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For over 1,000,000 metrics, you will have to pay $0.02 metric per month.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>\n<h4><b> Charges as per the APIs<\/b><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For GetInsightRuleReport and GetMetricData, you will have to pay $0.01 for every 1000 metrics that you request.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For GetMetricWidgetImage API, you will have to pay $0.02 for every 1000 metrics that you request.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For GetMetricStatistics, PutMetricData, ListDashboards, ListMetrics, DeleteDashboards, and PutDashboard API requests, you will have to pay $0.01 for every 1000 metrics that you request.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li>\n<h4><b> Charges of the Dashboard<\/b><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You will be charged around $3.00 for every <\/span><b>AWS CloudWatch<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> dashboard that you use. 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