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 to have the limit increased. When you open the ticket, choose the topic “Cloud Integrations” and the subject “Increase AWS Metrics Resource Limits”.