An analysis of Rusty CloudWatch Exporter’s operational expenses, emphasizing how its architecture influences the costs associated with fetching metrics from AWS, both in nominal terms and in comparison with alternative mechanisms.
How to leverage AWS CloudWatch Metric Streams to build a Prometheus exporter for AWS metrics: overall ingestion architecture, pros and cons versus using the CloudWatch API.
Given that Prometheus and AWS are both industries standards, once would - incorrectly - assume that it would be easy to ingest AWS metrics into Prometheus. In this article, I explore the main flaws in the current tooling to ingest CloudWatch metrics into Prometheus.