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John Engelman 5f3a91bffd Consolidate AWS credentials (#1208) 
* Use shared AWS credential configuration.

*  Cloudwatch dimension wilcards 

* Allow configuring cache_ttl for cloudwatch metrics.

* Allow for wildcard in dimension values to select all available metrics.

* Use internal.Duration for CacheTTL and go fmt

* Refactor to not use embedded structs for config.

* Update AWS plugin READMEs with credentials details, update Changelog.

* Fix changelog after rebasing to master and 0.13.1 release.

* Fix changelog after rebase.
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README.md Consolidate AWS credentials (#1208) 2016-05-25 12:30:39 +01:00
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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. Assumed credentials via STS if role_arn attribute is specified (source credentials are evaluated from subsequent rules)
  2. Explicit credentials from access_key, secret_key, and token attributes
  3. Shared profile from profile attribute
  4. Environment Variables
  5. Shared Credentials
  6. EC2 Instance Profile

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.