Amazon CloudWatch introduces native OpenTelemetry metrics with PromQL querying and per-GB pricing (opens in new tab)

Amazon CloudWatch now natively supports OpenTelemetry metrics. You can send metrics via the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) and query them using Prometheus Query Language (PromQL), with per-GB ingestion pricing and 15 months of storage included. This allows you to consolidate custom application metrics and AWS vended metrics from more than 70 services in a single solution, queryable together in PromQL. CloudWatch exposes a Prometheus-compatible query API, so teams already using OpenTelemetry, P...