Visualizing AWS telemetry with Grafana Cloud
There are two main ways in which you can visualize your AWS telemetry with Grafana Cloud:
- Amazon CloudWatch data source: Amazon CloudWatch telemetry remains in AWS and Grafana is configured to remotely read the data at query time
- AWS integration: AWS CloudWatch telemetry data is either sent to or scraped and stored in Grafana Cloud (logs in Loki and metrics in Mimir).
Let’s take a look at the differences between these two options to understand whether the integration option or the data source option best fits your use case.
Amazon CloudWatch data source
Grafana Cloud comes with support for Amazon CloudWatch, allowing you to query, trigger alerts, and visualize your data in Grafana dashboards. To read CloudWatch telemetry, you will need to configure the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions and provide the necessary authentication details in the data source configuration screen. This does not...