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	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.
- Assumed credentials via STS if 
role_arnattribute is specified (source credentials are evaluated from subsequent rules) - Explicit credentials from 
access_key,secret_key, andtokenattributes - Shared profile from 
profileattribute - Environment Variables
 - Shared Credentials
 - EC2 Instance Profile
 
The IAM user needs only the cloudwatch:PutMetricData permission.
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.