Which is cheaper, Amazon CloudWatch or PagerDuty?

Pricing varies by tier and usage. Check both tools for current rates.

Does Amazon CloudWatch have a free tier?

Yes, Amazon CloudWatch offers a free tier with freeApiRequests: 1000000, freeAlarmMetrics: 10.

Amazon CloudWatch has significant switching cost. PagerDuty has significant switching cost. Both have similar switching complexity.

Monitoring

AWS monitoring and observability service for metrics, logs, alarms, and dashboards

Switching Cost: significant

PagerDuty

Incident management and response platform with on-call scheduling, alerting, and AIOps

Switching Cost: significant

Cost modeling varies: usage-based drives Amazon CloudWatch pricing, while PagerDuty uses per-seat.

Both tools have compelling strengths — choose Amazon CloudWatch if you value aws, otherwise PagerDuty offers advantages in incident.

Both tools have compelling strengths — choose Amazon CloudWatch if you value aws, otherwise PagerDuty offers advantages in incident.

Pricing Model

Different

Tools charge using different pricing philosophies