Open-source alternative  ·  Cloud Monitoring

Replace AWS CloudWatch with Prometheus + Grafana + Loki.

Full observability stack: Prometheus for time-series metrics, Grafana for visualisation, Loki for log aggregation. Replaces CloudWatch metrics, logs, and alarms. No per-metric or per-GB fees.

You'd keep~R66 600 to ~R388 500/year

Current licence  ·  Cloud Monitoring

AWS CloudWatch

~R66 600 – ~R388 500/yr

10-user estimate

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Prometheus + Grafana + Loki

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R388 500/yr

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Today's licence price

2 tiers. AWS CloudWatch's prices.

Vendor-advertised pricing converted to ZAR, 10-user estimate. Pick the tier closest to what your team is on today.

Standard (50 GB logs/mo)

R66 600/yr

R5 550/month

Estimated monthly

With Prometheus + Grafana + Loki

Keep R66 600/yr

Enterprise (500 GB logs/mo)

R388 500/yr

R32 375/month

Estimated monthly

With Prometheus + Grafana + Loki

Keep R388 500/yr

Enterprise and negotiated pricing varies. Book a free audit for your exact number.

Five years on the books

What the spend looks like compounding.

AWS CloudWatch grows around 10% per year on average. Prometheus + Grafana + Loki hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.

R0kR172kR345kR517kR689kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R626kR39k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R2.77M

Salesforce alone, single tool, 50 users. Stack multiple tools and the maths compounds harder.

How this migration runs

AWS CloudWatchPrometheus + Grafana + Loki, in four moves.

01

Audit

Workflows, customisations, integrations, users. Mapped against the OSS feature set.

02

Plan

Migration sequence, rollback path, parallel-run schedule. You approve every step before we move.

03

Migrate

Stream the data, verify checksums, replay the audit trail. Both stacks run side by side until cutover passes every test.

04

Operate

Documentation in your repo, monitoring on your infra. We stay on as the team that maintains and grows it.

Same category

Other cloud monitoring migrations.

Running one of these alongside? Same migration shop covers both.

Migrate AWS CloudWatch.
Keep the money.

Free audit. 30 minutes. We map your current setup, surface the real licence costs, and show you the migration in time and rand.