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Identifying resources driving Amazon CloudWatch GetMetricData charges using AWS CloudTrail

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This article provides a comprehensive guide to identifying and managing Amazon CloudWatch GetMetricData API charges using AWS CloudTrail and analytics tools.

  • Organizations often incur high costs from third-party monitoring tools retrieving CloudWatch metric data
  • AWS introduced CloudTrail data events for CloudWatch to help customers investigate API usage
  • The solution involves enabling CloudWatch data events in CloudTrail and using Athena or CloudWatch Log Insights to analyze API calls
  • Key analysis methods include identifying API calls by: • IAM Role/User • User Agent • Client IP Address • AWS Account ID
  • Best practices to reduce GetMetricData costs include: • Limiting metric retrieval • Revoking unnecessary permissions • Using CloudWatch Metric Streams

The article provides a step-by-step approach to understanding and optimizing CloudWatch API usage and associated costs.

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