A Better AWS CloudWatch Exporter: Ingestion Architecture Overview
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.
Tag: Motivation
The Unsatisfying State of Prometheus-Based Monitoring of AWS Infrastructure
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.