Analyzing your custom metrics spend contributors in Amazon CloudWatch
AWS Cloud Operations Blog
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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