Skip to content
KostrixBeta, home
  • Features
  • Pricing
  • Security
  • Blog
  • Contact
Log in Start free trial
  • Features
  • Pricing
  • Security
  • Blog
  • Contact
  • Log in
  • Theme
  1. Blog
  2. Observability

Articles on Observability

▸Topic: Observability· change
  • All articles
  • Cost Optimization
  • EC2
  • Billing
  • S3
  • Savings Plans
  • Serverless
  • Storage
  • Bedrock
  • CloudWatch
  • Data Transfer
  • EBS
  • Generative AI
  • Graviton
  • Reservations
  • Reserved Instances
  • Aurora
  • CloudFront
  • Containers
  • DynamoDB
  • EKS
  • ElastiCache
  • Kubernetes
  • Lambda
  • MediaLive
  • Networking
  • Observability
  • RDS
  • Redshift
  • Spot Instances
  • VPC

LatestOct 30, 2026 · 13 min read

CloudWatch Metrics, Dashboards and Alarms: What Each One Costs

What CloudWatch metrics, dashboards and alarms cost in us-east-1: custom metric tiers, high-cardinality dimensions, EC2 detailed monitoring and GetMetricData.

  • CloudWatch
  • Observability
  • Cost Optimization
  • EC2

Read the article →

Kostrix finds the savings in your AWS bill and tells you exactly what to change

It scans your AWS accounts read-only for idle resources, rightsizing, Savings Plans and reserved-instance coverage, storage, data transfer and more, and prices every finding against your own bill.

Start free trialSee pricing

KostrixBeta

AWS cost optimization tool. 235 read-only checks across storage, compute, networking, databases, serverless and ML, plus Savings Plans and reserved-instance coverage, each finding priced and reconciled against your bill.

Log in to Kostrix

What it finds

  • AWS cost checks by service
  • How it works
  • Unused EBS volumes
  • Idle AWS resources
  • Savings Plans coverage
  • Blog
  • How a figure is built
  • Bill reconciliation

Trust

  • Security and access
  • The IAM policy
  • Credential handling
  • Measurement doctrines
  • Terms of Service
  • Disclaimer
  • Privacy Policy
  • Data Processing Addendum

Get started

  • Start free trial
  • Pricing and free trial
  • Talk to us
  • Support
  • RSS feed