Amazon CloudWatch pipelines now supports processing and enriching OpenTelemetry metrics

Update your CloudWatch pipelines to leverage the new OTel metric processing capability for enriching and transforming metrics centrally, reducing the need for custom processing layers and application instrumentation changes.

Adopt the new OTel metric processing capability in CloudWatch pipelines to simplify metric transformations, enforce consistent naming conventions, and reduce storage costs by stripping high-cardinality labels.

Evaluate the new OTel metric processing capability in CloudWatch pipelines to centralize metric transformations, reduce custom processing layers, and improve operational efficiency without requiring new infrastructure or changes to application instrumentation.