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title: "Verify data collection | Grafana Labs"
description: "Learn how to verify data is collected and being sent to Grafana Cloud."
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# Verify data collection

After you have created your CloudWatch metric scrape job, you can check that data is successfully getting sent from your Amazon account to Grafana Cloud.

To verify data is getting sent to Grafana Cloud:

1. In Grafana Cloud, select **Observability > Cloud provider > AWS** in the main menu.
2. Click the **Services** tab.
3. Find your scrape job listed in the **Job name** column.
   
   If data is getting sent to Grafana Cloud, the Service’s status is “Sending data”.
4. Hover your mouse over the status to see the date data was last sent from your specific scrape job.

In your next milestone, you’ll explore the AWS service data collected through your scrape jobs using Grafana built-in dashboards and query tools.