Grafana 11.4 release: Introducing support for OpenSearch PPL and OpenSearch SQL in the AWS CloudWatch data source plugin
Holidays came early for AWS users: Grafana 11.4 introduces support for two new query languages in the AWS CloudWatch data source plugin.
Announced during AWS re:Invent, AWS CloudWatch Logs expanded its querying capabilities with the addition of OpenSearch Piped Processing Language (PPL) and OpenSearch SQL. In Grafana 11.4, the AWS Cloudwatch data source plugin has been updated to offer the same functionality — and the same flexibility. If you’re an AWS user, you can now choose the query language that you’re most familiar with to filter and aggregate your CloudWatch logs, and OpenSearch users will be able to query their logs without having to duplicate data.
In addition to the already supported Logs Insights QL option, you can find the added query language options in the new Query language drop-down menu.
The following features are supported in the AWS CloudWatch data source plugin for both OpenSearch PPL and OpenSearch SQL:
- Syntax highlighting to improve readability of complex queries.
- Live code completion with suggestions of language-specific commands and functions depending on what you’re typing. This includes discovered fields based on your selected log groups.
- Sample queries in Logs Cheat Sheet that contain a number of example queries, which you can simply select to paste in the query field.
For the complete list of commands supported for OpenSearch PPL and OpenSearch SQL, refer to the AWS CloudWatch Logs Insights documentation.
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