Card #3604 · Grafana
AWS CloudWatch datasource connection and authentication failures
We are experiencing various failures when connecting Grafana to AWS CloudWatch, including issues with assumed IAM roles across accounts and credential errors. Some users report that previously working configurations stopped functioning after version updates or when operating behind corporate proxies.
Pain score
0.21/ 1.00 · weighted product of four components
Reach0.82distinct authors (log-normalized)
Recency1.00freshness decay, half-life months
Engagement0.63upvotes + comments, normalized
Monetization0.50willingness-to-pay cues in evidence
§ Evidence — 3 verified quotes
error="Failed to call cloudwatch:ListMetrics"
I can’t seem to connect to CloudWatch using the SAME credentials that are working on 5.0.0 (on the same machine).
Unable to get cloud watch logs into grafana using the access and secret keys for amazon instances using the CloudWatchEventsReadOnlyAccess for an user(grafana) configured getting http 2.0/500 error
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