## Amazon CloudWatch Output for Telegraf

This plugin will send points to Amazon CloudWatch.

## Amazon Authentication

This plugin uses a credential chain for Authentication with the Kinesis API endpoint. In the following order the plugin
will attempt to authenticate.
1. [IAMS Role](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/iam-roles-for-amazon-ec2.html)
2. [Environment Variables](https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/wiki/configuring-sdk)
3. [Shared Credentials](https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/wiki/configuring-sdk)

## Config

For this output plugin to function correctly the following variables must be configured.

* region
* namespace

### region

The region is the Amazon region that you wish to connect to. Examples include but are not limited to
* us-west-1
* us-west-2
* us-east-1
* ap-southeast-1
* ap-southeast-2

### namespace

The namespace used for AWS CloudWatch metrics.