Compare monitoring services (CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Cloud Monitoring) across providers.
Unified monitoring and observability service for AWS resources with metrics, logs, alarms, dashboards, and automated actions.
10 custom metrics, 10 alarms, 3 dashboards (up to 50 metrics), 1M API requests, 5 GB log data ingestion, 5 GB log data storage
Full-stack monitoring service providing metrics, logs, alerts, and diagnostics across Azure and hybrid environments.
First 5 GB/month log data ingestion (per billing account), platform metrics at no charge, first 1,000 standard metric alert signals free
Integrated monitoring, logging, and diagnostics for Google Cloud infrastructure and applications via the Operations Suite.
All GCP metrics free, first 150 MiB custom/external metrics free, first 50 GB/project log ingestion free, alerting policies free (first 500)
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{
"provider": "aws",
"serviceName": "Amazon CloudWatch",
"description": "Unified monitoring and observability service for AWS resources with metrics, logs, alarms, dashboards, and automated actions.",
"metricsRetention": "15 months (standard resolution); 3 hours (high-resolution at 1-second intervals)",
"customMetricsSupport": true,
"dashboardsIncluded": 3,
"alertingChannels": [
"SNS (Email, SMS, HTTP)",
"Lambda",
"EventBridge",
"PagerDuty via SNS",
"Webhook via SNS"
],
"logIngestionPricing": "$0.50/GB",
"metricsPricing": "$0.30/metric/month (first 10,000)",
"freeAllowance": "10 custom metrics, 10 alarms, 3 dashboards (up to 50 metrics), 1M API requests, 5 GB log data ingestion, 5 GB log data storage",
"apmIncluded": true,
"syntheticsIncluded": true
},
{
"provider": "azure",
"serviceName": "Azure Monitor",
"description": "Full-stack monitoring service providing metrics, logs, alerts, and diagnostics across Azure and hybrid environments.",
"metricsRetention": "93 days (standard platform metrics); configurable for Log Analytics workspace",
"customMetricsSupport": true,
"dashboardsIncluded": -1,
"alertingChannels": [
"Email",
"SMS",
"Voice call",
"Azure mobile app",
"Webhook",
"Logic Apps",
"ITSM connectors",
"PagerDuty"
],
"logIngestionPricing": "$2.76/GB (Log Analytics)",
"metricsPricing": "$0.18/metric time-series/month",
"freeAllowance": "First 5 GB/month log data ingestion (per billing account), platform metrics at no charge, first 1,000 standard metric alert signals free",
"apmIncluded": true,
"syntheticsIncluded": true
},
{
"provider": "gcp",
"serviceName": "Google Cloud Monitoring (Operations Suite)",
"description": "Integrated monitoring, logging, and diagnostics for Google Cloud infrastructure and applications via the Operations Suite.",
"metricsRetention": "24 months for metric data",
"customMetricsSupport": true,
"dashboardsIncluded": -1,
"alertingChannels": [
"Email",
"SMS",
"PagerDuty",
"Webhooks",
"Pub/Sub",
"Slack",
"Mobile app"
],
"logIngestionPricing": "$0.50/GB (Cloud Logging)",
"metricsPricing": "$0.2580/MiB custom metric data ingested",
"freeAllowance": "All GCP metrics free, first 150 MiB custom/external metrics free, first 50 GB/project log ingestion free, alerting policies free (first 500)",
"apmIncluded": true,
"syntheticsIncluded": true
}
]The Multi-Cloud Monitoring Compare tool provides a side-by-side comparison of monitoring services across AWS, Azure, and GCP. It maps equivalent services like CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, and Cloud Monitoring, comparing capabilities such as metrics collection, dashboarding, alerting, anomaly detection, and pricing models. This is an essential reference for teams operating in multi-cloud environments or evaluating which provider's monitoring stack best fits their operational needs.
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