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Analyzing your custom metrics spend contributors in Amazon CloudWatch

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This article discusses how to analyze and optimize your spend on custom metrics in Amazon CloudWatch. It introduces a solution that helps identify the top contributors to your CloudWatch custom metrics costs and provides detailed insights.

Specifically, the article covers:

  • Visualizing your custom metrics using a treemap visualization that highlights the largest contributors
  • Interacting with the treemap to explore underlying metric names, dimension values, and cardinality
  • Estimating your overall custom metrics spend to identify optimization opportunities
  • Deploying the solution using an AWS CloudFormation template
  • Conclusion on how this solution helps manage and optimize your CloudWatch custom metrics spend
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