Costs associated with CloudWatch investigations - Amazon CloudWatch
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Costs associated with CloudWatch investigations

CloudWatch investigations might incur Amazon service usage including telemetry and resource queries and other API usage. While the majority of these will not be charged to your Amazon bill, there are exceptions including, but not limited to:

  • CloudWatch APIs (ListMetrics, GetDashboard, ListDashboards, and GetInsightRuleReport)

  • X-Ray APIs (GetServiceGraph, GetTraceSummaries, and BatchGetTraces)

  • CloudWatch investigations also uses Amazon Cloud Control APIs which might incur usage of Amazon services such as Amazon Kinesis Data Streams and Amazon Lambda.

  • Additionally, if you choose to integrate CloudWatch investigations in chat applications you might incur usage of Amazon Simple Notification Service.

For usage of these services exceeding the Amazon Free Tier, you will see charges on your Amazon bill. These charges are expected to be minimal for normal usage of CloudWatch investigations. For more information, see Amazon Kinesis Data Streams pricing, Amazon Lambda pricing for Automation, and Amazon Simple Notification Service pricing.