Pricing

The Amazon CloudWatch data source for Grafana uses the ListMetrics and GetMetricData CloudWatch API calls to list and retrieve metrics. Pricing for CloudWatch Logs is based on the amount of data ingested, archived, and analyzed via CloudWatch Logs Insights queries. For more information, see Amazon CloudWatch Pricing.

Every time you pick a dimension in the query editor, Grafana issues a ListMetrics request. Whenever you change the queries in the query editor, one new request to GetMetricData will be issued.

API requests to retrieve data samples use the GetMetricData operation. This operation provides better support for CloudWatch metric math. It also supports the automatic generation of search expressions when using wildcard characters or turning off the Match Exact option. The GetMetricData operation incurs charges. For more information, see Amazon CloudWatch Pricing.