Amazon CloudWatch introduces native OpenTelemetry metrics with PromQL querying and per-GB pricing
Cloudwatch Otel Metrics ยท 2026-06-16
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Technical Details
| Regions | all commercial AWS Regions except Middle East (UAE), Middle East (Bahrain), and Israel (Tel Aviv) |
|---|---|
| Cost Impact | Neutral |
What This Means
For DevOps Teams
Update your monitoring stack to utilize Amazon CloudWatch's native OpenTelemetry metrics and PromQL querying, ensuring compatibility with existing tools like Prometheus and Grafana, and take advantage of the per-GB ingestion pricing for cost-effective metric management.
For Platform Teams
Adopt Amazon CloudWatch's new OpenTelemetry metrics capability to streamline the integration of custom application metrics and AWS vended metrics, reducing operational toil and enhancing the observability platform with PromQL querying.
For Executives
Evaluate the integration of Amazon CloudWatch's new OpenTelemetry metrics with PromQL querying to consolidate custom and AWS metrics, enhancing observability and potentially reducing monitoring costs with per-GB pricing and included 15 months of storage.
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