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Daniel Nelson fe91c779e9 Remove AWS credential check from cloudwatch output (#3583 )

This method is reported to not work with IAM Instance Profiles, and we
do not want to make any calls that would require additional permissions.

(cherry picked from commit 5b40173bcb)

2017-12-13 17:52:45 -08:00

cloudwatch_test.go

Added CloudWatch metric constraint validation (#3183 )

2017-08-28 16:56:03 -07:00

cloudwatch.go

Remove AWS credential check from cloudwatch output (#3583 )

2017-12-13 17:52:45 -08:00

README.md

Fix cloudwatch output requires unneeded permissions (#3335 )

2017-10-13 11:04:40 -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.

Assumed credentials via STS if role_arn attribute is specified (source credentials are evaluated from subsequent rules)
Explicit credentials from access_key, secret_key, and token attributes
Shared profile from profile attribute
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.