Amazon CloudWatch Logs vs Dynatrace Real User Monitoring

Amazon CloudWatch Logs collects and stores logs from AWS resources, applications, services, on-premises systems, and other clouds. It offers log pipelines, structured parsing, archive export, and live tailing through web and API access. Logs Insights lets users query records with filters, aggregations, and regular expressions, then visualize time-series data or export results to CloudWatch Dashboards. Logs are available in Standard for real-time monitoring and advanced analytics, or Infrequent Access for ad-hoc queries and forensic analysis. Live Tail provides a central interactive view of streaming logs, while anomaly detection uses machine learning to identify patterns and changes. Users can search and analyze logs across accounts from a monitoring account at no additional cost. The free tier includes 5 GB for ingestion, archive storage, and query scans, plus 1,800 Live Tail minutes per month. Usage-based charges are billed at month end, with no upfront commitment or minimum fee; rates vary by Region.

Dynatrace Real User Monitoring tracks interactions with web and mobile applications on Android, iOS, and the web. It covers Core Web Vitals, user interactions, errors, geographic breakdowns, and error correlation. Billing is based on sessions. The Real User Monitoring plan costs $2.25 a month, billed at $0.00225 per session, with 35 days of data retention. RUM with Session Replay costs $4.50 a month, billed at $0.0045 per session with replay capture and the same 35-day retention. The Real User Monitoring Property plan is free and uses usage-based session-property billing. There is no free plan, but a 15-day trial is listed. The product supports mobile app monitoring and interaction tracking across its listed platforms. Dynatrace was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.