aws_rds_cpuutilization_average > 80Managed databases under pressure.
The CloudWatch average, as a series you can alert on.
Cloud services next to the hosts that call them.
CloudWatch, Azure Monitor and Google Cloud metrics arrive through the same agent as everything else. Managed queues, databases and load balancers stop being a separate tab and start being part of the request they slow down.
Included on the free tier: 20,000 active series, 50 GB of logs and 50 GB of traces a month. No card.
rds/orders-primary88% CPU
sqs/checkout-jobs1.2k visible
alb/public-edge3.4k req/s
s3/asset-bucket12 ms
elasticache/session0.9 ms
What you get
Cloud and self-hosted telemetry, together.
Metric sources
| Source | Series | Status |
|---|---|---|
| aws · eu-west-2 | 18,420 | reporting |
| azure · uksouth | 6,110 | reporting |
| gcp · europe-west2 | 4,980 | reporting |
| hosts · self-hosted | 41,300 | reporting |
How it gets there
Three steps, then it is reporting.
The cloud receiver runs on an agent you already have and pulls from the provider API.
Assign the cloud receiver to an agent from the portal.
Grant it read access in the provider account.
Cloud metrics land beside your host metrics.
Demonstration data
# 01 · Cloud receiver, assigned from the portal
receivers:
awscloudwatch:
region: eu-west-2
namespaces: [AWS/RDS, AWS/SQS, AWS/ApplicationELB]# 02 · read-only access in the account
cloudwatch:GetMetricData, cloudwatch:ListMetrics
aws_rds_cpuutilization_average 88
aws_sqs_…_visible_average 1204
aws_applicationelb_…_5xx 0.4%
What you can ask
What that looks like as a query.
Examples for the metric names shown. Confirm exported names, labels and collection periods before using them in Insights or alerts.
aws_sqs_approximate_number_of_messages_visible_average > 1000Queues backing up before consumers notice.
Visible messages climbing means consumers are behind.
aws_applicationelb_httpcode_target_5xx_count_sum > 0Find load balancers with target errors.
For CloudWatch Sum values exported per collection period, not cumulative counters. Returns positive counts from the latest reported period with their original labels. Missing data does not mean zero errors.
Questions
What teams ask about cloud collection.
Something not here? Talk to an engineer who works on the platform.
Book thirty minutesNo. The cloud receiver runs on an agent you already have and pulls from the provider API with read access you grant it.
Start on the free tier.
20,000 active series, 50 GB of logs and 50 GB of traces a month, 90-day retention, and the whole of Insights.