Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights pricing
4 plans read from aws.amazon.com
Container Insights with OpenTelemetry for EKS$0.08 a month Ingestion is charged at $0.08 per GB; pricing varies by Region.Collects Amazon EKS metrics at 30-second granularity · Supports PromQL queries · Includes storage and API access in the ingestion charge Read 21 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Container Insights with Enhanced Observability for EKSPriced on request Collects container-level EKS performance metrics · Collects Kube-state metrics and EKS control plane metrics · Uses tiered pricing based on observations Read 21 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Container Insights with Enhanced Observability for ECSPriced on request Collects task- and container-level ECS performance metrics · Can be enabled at cluster or account level · Priced per metric per month and prorated by the hour Read 21 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Container Insights without Enhanced ObservabilityPriced on request Provides cluster- and service-level aggregated metrics · Supports Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS Read 21 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
In short
- Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights has a free plan (Container Insights with Enhanced Observability for EKS).
- Paid plans published: 1, from $0.08 a month.
- 3 plans are priced on request (Container Insights with Enhanced Observability for EKS, Container Insights with Enhanced Observability for ECS, Container Insights without Enhanced Observability).
What the alternatives costAll alternatives →
| Tool | From | Free plan | Free trial |
|---|---|---|---|
| Checkmk | $275/mo | Yes | Yes |
| Coroot | $1/mo | Yes | Yes |
| Grafana Cloud Application Observability | $0.03/mo | Yes | No |
| Chronosphere Application Observability | — | Yes | Yes |
| Middleware | $0.30/mo | Yes | Yes |
| Netdata | $4.50/mo | Yes | Yes |
| Datadog Kubernetes Monitoring | $1/mo | Yes | Yes |
| Honeycomb | $150/mo | Yes | Yes |