CloudWatch Metrics Receiver

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Receives Cloudwatch metrics from AWS Cloudwatch via the AWS SDK for Cloudwatch Logs

Getting Started

This receiver uses the AWS SDK as mode of authentication, which includes Profile and IMDS authentication for EC2 instances.

Configuration

Top Level Parameters

Parameter	Notes	type	Description
region	required	string	The AWS recognized region string
profile	optional	string	The AWS profile used to authenticate, if none is specified the default is chosen from the list of profiles
IMDSEndpoint	optional	string	The IMDS endpoint to authenticate to AWS
poll_interval	default=1m	duration	The duration waiting in between requests
metrics	optional	Metrics	Configuration for metrics ingestion of this receiver

Metrics Parameters

Parameter	Notes	type	Description
named	required	See Named Parameters	Configuration for Named Metrics, by default no metrics are collected

Named Parameters

Parameter	Notes	type	Description
namespace	required	string	AWS Metric namespace, all AWS namespaces are prefixed with AWS, eg: AWS/EC2 for EC2 metrics
metric_name	required	string	AWS metric name
period	default=5m	duration	Aggregation period
aws_aggregation	default=sum	string	type of AWS aggregation, eg: sum, min, max, average
dimensions	optional	see Dimensions Parameters	Configuration for metric dimensions

Dimension Parameters

Parameter	Notes	type	Description
name	required	string	Dimensions name, can't start with a colon
value	required	string	Dimension value

Named Example

awscloudwatchmetrics:
  region: us-east-1
  poll_interval: 1m
  metrics:
    named:
      - namespace: "AWS/EC2"
        metric_name: "CPUUtilization"
        period: "5m"
        aws_aggregation: "Sum"
        dimensions:
          - Name: "InstanceId"
            Value: "i-1234567890abcdef0"
      - namespace: "AWS/S3"
        metric_name: "BucketSizeBytes"
        period: "5m"
        aws_aggregation: "p99"
        dimensions:
          - Name: "BucketName"
            Value: "OpenTelemetry"
          - Name: "StorageType"
            Value: "StandardStorage"

Sample Configs

receivers:
  awscloudwatchmetrics:
    region: eu-west-1
    poll_interval: 10m
    metrics:
      named:
        - namespace: "AWS/EC2"
          metric_name: "CPUUtilization"
          period: "5m"
          aws_aggregation: "Sum"
          dimensions:
            - Name: "InstanceId"
              Value: "i-035e091c31292427a"

processors:

exporters:
  debug:
    verbosity: detailed

service:
  pipelines:
    metrics:
      receivers: [awscloudwatchmetrics]
      processors: []
      exporters: [debug]

AWS Costs

This receiver uses the GetMetricData API call, this call is not in the AWS free tier. Please refer to Amazon's pricing for further information about expected costs.

Troubleshooting / Debugging

My metrics are intermittent / not receiving any metrics

Try a bigger poll_interval. CloudWatch returns no data if the period of the metric, by default for AWS supplied metrics, it's 300 seconds (5 minutes). Try out a period of 600 seconds and a poll interval of 600 seconds.

Help, I'm getting IAM permission denied

Make sure your IAM role/user has the required permissions:

"cloudwatch:GetMetricData",
"cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics",
"cloudwatch:ListMetrics"

The following IAM permissions are required for transit gateways to work:

"ec2:DescribeTags",
"ec2:DescribeInstances",
"ec2:DescribeRegions",
"ec2:DescribeTransitGateway*"