Amazon CloudWatch now supports OpenTelemetry metrics in public preview
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This article announces that Amazon CloudWatch now supports native OpenTelemetry (OTel) metrics in public preview, allowing direct metric ingestion via OTLP without custom conversion.
- Send OTel metrics directly to CloudWatch without additional tooling or conversion logic
- Combine custom OTel metrics with AWS vended metrics from 70+ services
- Query all metrics using PromQL for unified dashboards and alarms
- Correlate metrics across hybrid environments (EKS and on-premises)
- CloudWatch anomaly detection works with OTel metrics automatically
- Query Studio provides new PromQL console experience for writing queries and building dashboards
- Available in preview across five AWS regions with no preview charges
CloudWatch now natively supports OpenTelemetry metrics, simplifying multi-environment monitoring and enabling unified observability across hybrid infrastructure without additional agents.
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