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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.

GrafanaUpdated 2d ago0.21
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§ Evidence — 3 verified quotes
error="Failed to call cloudwatch:ListMetrics"
Forum·@dvuong··source ↗
I can’t seem to connect to CloudWatch using the SAME credentials that are working on 5.0.0 (on the same machine).
Forum·@viper25··source ↗
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
Forum·@rajiv··source ↗

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