Container Insights pricing of metrics

[tgraupne]

While reading the best practices guides I came across this line stating:

Metrics collected by Container Insights are charged as custom metrics.

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observability-best-practices/docs/en/guides/containers/aws-native/ecs/best-practices-metrics-collection-1.md

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Metrics collected by Container Insights are charged as custom metrics. For more information about CloudWatch pricing, see [Amazon CloudWatch Pricing](https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/pricing/)

observability-best-practices/docs/en/guides/containers/aws-native/eks/amazon-cloudwatch-container-insights.md

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From a cost optimization standpoint and to help you manage your Container Insights cost, CloudWatch does not automatically create all possible metrics from the log data. However, you can view additional metrics and additional levels of granularity by using CloudWatch Logs Insights to analyze the raw performance log events. Metrics collected by Container Insights are charged as custom metrics. For more information about CloudWatch pricing, see [Amazon CloudWatch Pricing](https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/pricing/).

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However, after the release of Container Insights with Enhanced Observability last year, I believe AWS changed the billing of Container Insights. On there AWS CloudWatch Pricing Website they state the following:

Container Insights with enhanced observability uses a tiered pricing model based on observations.

https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/pricing/

Now, I am not sure if I understood all the documentation regarding pricing but since I saw that the specific line I am mentioning was pushed months before the new release of enhanced observability, I thought this information might be outdated. 🙂