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