Create a scrape job

In this milestone, you’ll create a scrape job to customize metric collection from your AWS services. Scrape jobs allow you to specify which metrics to collect, set collection intervals, and apply filters to optimize performance and costs.

Scrape jobs provide granular control over metric collection, enabling you to focus on the most important metrics for your monitoring needs while avoiding unnecessary data collection.

To create a scrape job for AWS services, complete the following steps:

1. In Grafana Cloud, select Observability > Cloud provider > AWS in the main menu.

2. Click the Configuration tab.

3. Select the CloudWatch metrics scrape tile.

4. Click Add new scrape job.

5. Select the AWS account you created in the previous milestone.

6. Enter a descriptive name for the scrape job in the Scrape job name field.

   For example, enter EC2-Production-Monitoring.

7. Leave the Include your AWS resource tags checkbox selected.

   This setting is selected by default because Cloud Provider Observability for AWS requires tag data on the scrape info metrics for the best possible dashboard experience.

8. Select the AWS services you want to scrape.

   Find services by using search or browsing in the list of services.

9. Click Create scrape job to begin collecting metrics.

   A default set of metrics is collected for each service.

The scrape job begins collecting metrics according to your configuration.

In your next milestone, you’ll explore how to monitor the job status to verify data is getting sent from your Amazon account to Grafana Cloud.