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Cloud Monitoring is ending support for AWS CloudWatch metrics in Connector projects.
This is a breaking change.
As of August 21, 2023, you can't create new
AWS Connector projects.
AWS Cloudwatch metrics collected by using existing
AWS Connector projects
were supported until August 21, 2024.
Collection of Amazon EC2 logs by using the legacy Logging agent isn't
affected by this deprecation.
Replacement: Prometheus CloudWatch exporter
If you are collecting AWS CloudWatch metrics by using
an AWS Connector project, then you must migrate to the replacement
solution, which uses the Ops Agent running on a Compute Engine VM
to collect metrics from the Prometheus CloudWatch exporter.
The Prometheus CloudWatch exporter is an
open source Prometheus exporter that can collect AWS CloudWatch metrics from
the CloudWatch API for AWS services and send them to Cloud Monitoring.
The Prometheus CloudWatch exporter provides the same functionality as the current
solution, supporting from metrics from the same AWS services.
The Prometheus CloudWatch exporter provides the following data-collection
improvements over the current solution:
Collection of additional metrics from the AWS services currently
supported.
Ability to to collect metrics from additional AWS services, beyond
those supported by the current solution.
For more information about the available AWS CloudWatch metrics, see
the AWS CloudWatch service documentation.
You can achieve up to an 8x cost savings for the same AWS CloudWatch
metrics over the current solution. The replacement solution uses
Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus metrics instead of Cloud Monitoring metrics.
For more information, see Google Cloud Observability pricing.
Migration
We recommend that you begin migrating AWS metric collection to the
Prometheus CloudWatch exporter as soon as possible. If you don't migrate to
the Prometheus CloudWatch exporter, then you will stop receiving new data from your
AWS Cloudwatch metrics on August 21, 2024.
Moving to the Prometheus CloudWatch exporter is a breaking change that
affects any chart, dashboard, or alerting policy that monitors AWS CloudWatch
metrics. You will need to rebuild these charts, dashboards, and alerting
policies.
If you no longer want to collect AWS metrics, then we recommend shutting
down your current collection.
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