Amazon CloudWatch pipelines now supports processing and enriching OpenTelemetry metrics
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This article announces that Amazon CloudWatch pipelines now supports processing and enriching OpenTelemetry metrics during ingestion.
- Apply metric transformations centrally without modifying application instrumentation
- Enrich metrics with business context like team ownership, cost center, and environment tags
- Strip high-cardinality labels from custom workloads to reduce storage costs
- Rename metrics and attributes to enforce consistent naming conventions
- Available in all AWS Regions where CloudWatch pipelines is supported
- No additional cost beyond standard CloudWatch pricing for OTel metrics
CloudWatch pipelines enables centralized metric processing and enrichment without infrastructure management or application changes.
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