Amazon CloudWatch now supports OpenTelemetry metrics in public preview
Cloudwatch Opentelemetry Metrics ยท 2026-04-02
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Technical Details
| Regions | us-east-1, us-west-2, ap-southeast-2, ap-southeast-1, eu-west-1 |
|---|---|
| Cost Impact | Neutral |
What This Means
For DevOps Teams
Update monitoring setup to utilize OpenTelemetry metrics with CloudWatch, allowing for seamless integration of custom and AWS vended metrics without additional agents or code changes, which can streamline observability practices and reduce toil.
For Platform Teams
Adopt OpenTelemetry metrics support in CloudWatch to simplify architecture by enabling unified monitoring across microservices and AWS services, reducing operational toil and improving observability capabilities.
For Executives
Evaluate integrating OpenTelemetry metrics with CloudWatch to enhance observability across microservices and AWS services, enabling unified monitoring and potentially reducing operational toil by correlating metrics from various environments.
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