AWS CloudWatch

The AWS CloudWatch exporter in Zilla publishes logs and metrics to Amazon CloudWatch, enabling real-time monitoring and analysis. It supports configuration options such as the target region, log group name, and namespace for organizing telemetry data efficiently.

Available in Zilla Plus

exporters:
  aws_cloudwatch:
    type: aws-cloudwatch
    options:
      metrics:
        namespace: zilla-metrics
        interval: 20
      logs:
        group: zilla-log-group
        stream: zilla-log-stream

Configuration (* required)

options

object

Property	Type	Description
options.metrics	`object`	Configuration for transmitting custom metric data points to Amazon CloudWatch.
options.metrics.namespace*	`string`	The namespace for the metric data. To avoid conflicts with Amazon Web Services service namespaces, you should not specify a namespace that begins with `AWS/`.
options.metrics.interval	`integer`	Default: `30`
options.logs	`object`	Configuration for transmitting log events to Amazon CloudWatch.
options.logs.group*	`string`	The name of the log group.
options.logs.stream*	`string`	The name of the log stream.

Examples

The aws specific options.

options:
  metrics:
    namespace: zilla-metrics
    interval: 20
  logs:
    group: zilla-log-group
    stream: zilla-log-stream