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John Engelman 4d5208f121 Refactor to not use embedded structs for config. 2016-05-16 17:31:03 -05:00
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README.md Throughout telegraf, use telegraf.Metric rather than client.Point 2016-01-27 23:47:32 -07:00
cloudwatch.go Refactor to not use embedded structs for config. 2016-05-16 17:31:03 -05:00
cloudwatch_test.go Throughout telegraf, use telegraf.Metric rather than client.Point 2016-01-27 23:47:32 -07:00

README.md

Amazon CloudWatch Output for Telegraf

This plugin will send metrics to Amazon CloudWatch.

Amazon Authentication

This plugin uses a credential chain for Authentication with the CloudWatch API endpoint. In the following order the plugin will attempt to authenticate.

  1. IAMS Role
  2. Environment Variables
  3. Shared Credentials

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.