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title: "Troubleshoot CloudWatch metrics scrape jobs | Grafana Cloud documentation"
description: "Troubleshoot common issues with CloudWatch metrics scrape jobs in Cloud Provider Observability, such as reaching the scrape job resource limit."
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# Troubleshoot CloudWatch metrics scrape jobs

This page describes common issues you might encounter with Amazon CloudWatch metrics scrape jobs and how to resolve them.

## Scrape job resource limit reached

If you receive the error `You reached the resource limit for a single scrape job`, it means Grafana Cloud has imposed a resource limit to prevent surprise bills from CloudWatch when monitoring a large AWS environment. This limit is applied per service across all configured regions for a job.

If you have a large AWS environment and the potential CloudWatch bill is acceptable, you can do one of the following:

- If you have one job that covers multiple regions, split the job into a single job for each region.
- Open a [support ticket](/docs/grafana-cloud/account-management/support/) to have the limit increased. When you open the ticket, choose the topic “Cloud Integrations” and the subject “Increase AWS Metrics Resource Limits”.