Introducing OpenTelemetry & PromQL support in Amazon CloudWatch

Amazon CloudWatch ยท 2026-04-03

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Technical Details

Regions us-east-1, us-west-2, eu-west-1, ap-southeast-1, ap-southeast-2
Cost Impact Neutral

What This Means

For DevOps Teams

Deploy the CloudWatch Observability add-on on your Amazon EKS cluster and configure your OpenTelemetry-compatible collectors or SDKs to send metrics to the new regional OTLP endpoint in CloudWatch, enabling PromQL queries and automatic AWS resource enrichment for your metrics.

For Platform Teams

Adopt the new OpenTelemetry metrics ingestion capability in Amazon CloudWatch to simplify your observability architecture, reduce toil by eliminating the need for separate backends and exporters, and gain a unified view of your metrics with high-cardinality label support and automatic AWS resource enrichment.

For Executives

Evaluate the new OpenTelemetry metrics ingestion in Amazon CloudWatch to consolidate your metrics pipeline, reduce operational overhead, and gain a unified view of your AWS infrastructure, container, and application metrics with high-cardinality label support and automatic AWS resource enrichment.

Source

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