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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