Amazon CloudWatch metric streams for Cloud Provider Observability
Amazon CloudWatch metric streams for Cloud Provider Observability
We are excited to announce the general availability of Amazon CloudWatch metric streams.
CloudWatch metric streams with Amazon Data Firehose offer you a less expensive, highly accurate way to import metrics from AWS into Grafana Cloud. As with CloudWatch metrics scrape, CloudWatch metric streams do not require you to deploy or maintain Alloy agents or servers and can be configured as code using Terraform or using a CloudFormation template.
CloudWatch metric streams capture metrics in near real-time, without sampling and little delay, offering you a more complete and accurate dataset compared to metrics scrape, which can miss spikes or drop metrics during polling intervals. Streams push data with less lag, which improves responsiveness for alerting, dashboards, and downstream processing. Furthermore, streams can be up to 5x cheaper than scrapes, since you are not paying for compute resources to pull and process metrics. You pay only for what you stream, reducing overhead.
To setup CloudWatch metric streams:
- Go to your Grafana Cloud portal.
- Expand Observability and Cloud provider, then select AWS in the main menu.
- Select the Configuration tab.
- Select the CloudWatch metric streams card.
For more information about configuring CloudWatch metric streams as code, refer to Configure metric streams with Terraform in the documentation.
