CloudWatch data source - native plugin
Grafana ships with built in support for CloudWatch. Simply add it as a data source and you are ready to build dashboards for your CloudWatch metrics and logs.
Read more about it here:
https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/datasources/cloudwatch/
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Insights
- Adoption
Running on 167,910 active Grafana instances.
- Activity
Last updated 14 Oct 2026.
17 releases in the past year.
- Queries
308,410,975 total queries served across all Grafana Cloud instances.
- Version
- 12.11.1
- Dependencies
- Grafana >=11.6.11-0 <12 || >=12.0.10-0 <12.1 || >=12.1.7-0 <12.2 || >=12.2.5-0
- Developer
- Grafana Labs
Grafana Cloud
Connect any plugin in Grafana Cloud.
- 150+ data source integrations
- Grafana Assistant - AI that correlates your data, builds queries, and answers questions
- 10k Prometheus metrics + 50 GB logs, traces, and profiles on the free tier
- ...and more