New Relic Kubernetes Monitoring vs Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights

New Relic Kubernetes Monitoring8.8Visit Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights8.6Visit

Higher score New Relic Kubernetes Monitoring #4 in Kubernetes Monitoring 8.8/10 Free plan Free plan✓ 0 of 4 features Visit New Relic

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Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights #6 in Kubernetes Monitoring 8.6/10 Paid ✓ 0 of 4 features Visit AWS

• New Relic Kubernetes Monitoring fits best

  Teams wanting Kubernetes telemetry with a free entry tier

• Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights fits best

  AWS teams monitoring EKS and container workloads

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Side by side

Feature	New Relic Kubernetes Monitoring 8.8/10 Visit ↗	Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights 8.6/10 Visit ↗
At a glance
Editor score	8.8	8.6
Ranking	#4 in Kubernetes Monitoring	#6 in Kubernetes Monitoring
Best for	Teams wanting Kubernetes telemetry with a free entry tier	AWS teams monitoring EKS and container workloads
Pricing model	Free plan + paid	Paid
Starting price	$10/user/mo	$0.08/GB usage-based
Free plan	✓ (best)	—
Free trial	—	—
Deployment	Cloud, Self-hosted	Cloud
Platforms	Web	Web
Support	Tickets, Community, Docs	Docs
Built for	Small business, Mid-market, Enterprise	Small business, Mid-market, Enterprise
Features New Relic Kubernetes Monitoring 0/4 · Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights 0/4
Control-plane monitoring	Not checked yet	Not checked yet
Kubernetes logs	Not checked yet	Not checked yet
Distributed tracing	Not checked yet	Not checked yet
Managed Kubernetes support	Not checked yet	Not checked yet
Specs
Alerting channels	Not checked yet	Not checked yet
Data retention	Not checked yet	Not checked yet
Our review
Pros	Correlates Kubernetes metrics, events, logs, and traces Free plan includes 100 GB of monthly data ingest Ingests Prometheus and OpenTelemetry telemetry	Tracks CPU, memory, disk, and network metrics across container workloads. Combines performance logs, CloudWatch alarms, and restart-failure diagnostics. Offers cluster-, service-, task-, and container-level observability modes.
Cons	Standard limits full platform access to five users Standard and Pro charge per user, with data ingest overages Kubernetes Monitoring is part of a broader observability platform	No free plan; pricing is usage-based and varies by AWS Region and mode. Its supported environments are centered on AWS and AWS services. Support channels listed are documentation only.
Our verdict	New Relic Kubernetes Monitoring brings cluster, workload, container, and application telemetry into New Relic’s observability platform. It is aimed at engineering, DevOps, and platform teams operating Kubernetes environments, including… Read the review →	For teams monitoring container workloads in AWS, Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights collects, aggregates, and summarizes metrics and logs from applications and microservices. It supports Amazon ECS and EKS, Red Hat OpenShift on AWS,… Read the review →

Strengths and trade-offs

• New Relic Kubernetes Monitoring — where it wins

  • Correlates Kubernetes metrics, events, logs, and traces
  • Free plan includes 100 GB of monthly data ingest
  • Ingests Prometheus and OpenTelemetry telemetry

  Where it doesn't

  • Standard limits full platform access to five users
  • Standard and Pro charge per user, with data ingest overages
  • Kubernetes Monitoring is part of a broader observability platform

• Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights — where it wins

  • Tracks CPU, memory, disk, and network metrics across container workloads.
  • Combines performance logs, CloudWatch alarms, and restart-failure diagnostics.
  • Offers cluster-, service-, task-, and container-level observability modes.

  Where it doesn't

  • No free plan; pricing is usage-based and varies by AWS Region and mode.
  • Its supported environments are centered on AWS and AWS services.
  • Support channels listed are documentation only.

• New Relic Kubernetes Monitoring8.8/10 · Free plan

  Kubernetes telemetry spans metrics, events, logs, and traces, with a free entry tier.

  Visit New RelicFull verdict →
• Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights8.6/10 · Paid

  AWS-focused container monitoring with metrics, logs, alarms, and restart diagnostics.

  Visit AWSFull verdict →