Quick partner setup

CloudWatch provides a quick setup experience for the following third-party partners. To use this workflow, you need to provide only a destination URL and API key for your destination. CloudWatch handles the rest of setup including creating the Firehose delivery stream and the necessary IAM roles.

Important

Before you use quick partner setup to create a metric stream, we strongly recommend that you read that partner's documentation, linked in the following list.

• Datadog

• Dynatrace

• New Relic

• Splunk Observability Cloud

• SumoLogic

When you set up a metric stream to one of these partners, the stream is created with some default settings, as listed in the following sections.

Set up a metric stream using quick partner setup

CloudWatch provides a quick setup option for some third-party partners. Before you start the steps in this section, you must have certain information for the partner. This information might include a destination URL and/or an API key for your partner destination. You should also read the documentation at the partner's website linked in the previous section, and the defaults for that partner listed in the following sections.

To stream to a third-party destination not supported by quick setup, you can follow the instructions in Follow the instructions in Custom setup with Firehose to set up a stream using Firehose, and then send those metrics from Firehose to the final destination.

To use quick partner setup to create a metric stream to third-party provider

1. Open the CloudWatch console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/.

2. In the navigation pane, choose Metrics, Streams. Then choose Create metric stream.

3. (Optional) If you are signed in to an account that is set up as a monitoring account in CloudWatch cross-account observability, you can choose whether to include metrics from linked source accounts in this metric stream. To include metrics from source accounts, choose Include source account metrics.

4. Choose Quick Amazon Web Services partner setup

5. Select the name of the partner that you want to stream metrics to.

6. For Endpoint URL, enter the destination URL.

7. For Access Key or API Key, enter the access key for the partner. Not all partners require an access key.

8. For Metrics to be streamed, choose either All metrics or Select metrics.

   If you choose All metrics, all metrics from this account will be included in the stream.

   Consider carefully whether to stream all metrics, because the more metrics that you stream the higher your metric stream charges will be.

   If you choose Select metrics, do one of the following:

   • To stream most metric namespaces, choose Exclude and select the namespaces or metrics to exclude. When you specify a namespace in Exclude, you can optionally select some specific metrics from that namespace to exclude. If you choose to exclude a namespace but don't then select metrics in that namespace, all metrics from that namespace are excluded.

   • To include only a few metric namespaces or metrics in the metric stream, choose Include and then select the namespaces or metrics to include. If you choose to include a namespace but don't then select metrics in that namespace, all metrics from that namespace are included.

9. (Optional) To stream additional statistics for some of these metrics beyond Minimum, Maximum, SampleCount, and Sum, choose Add additional statistics. Either choose Add recommended metrics to add some commonly used statistics, or manually select the namespace and metric name to stream additional statistics for. Next, select the additional statistics to stream.

   To then choose another group of metrics to stream a different set of additional statistics for, choose Add additional statistics. Each metric can include as many as 20 additional statistics, and as many as 100 metrics within a metric stream can include additional statistics.

   Streaming additional statistics incurs more charges. For more information, see Statistics that can be streamed.

   For definitions of the additional statistics, see CloudWatch statistics definitions.

10. (Optional) Customize the name of the new metric stream under Metric stream name.

11. Choose Create metric stream.

Datadog stream defaults

Quick partner setup streams to Datadog use the following defaults:

• Output format: OpenTelemetry 0.7.0

• Firehose stream content encoding GZIP

• Firehose stream buffering options Interval of 60 seconds, size of 4 MBs

• Firehose stream retry option Duration of 60 seconds

When you use quick partner setup to create a metric stream to Datadog and you stream certain metrics, by default those metrics include some additional statistics. Streaming additional statistics can incur additional charges. For more information about statistics and their charges, see Statistics that can be streamed.

The following list shows the metrics that have additional statistics streamed by default, if you choose to stream those metrics. You can choose to de-select these additional statistics before you start the stream.

• Duration in AWS/Lambda: p50, p80, p95, p99, p99.9

• PostRuntimeExtensionDuration in AWS/Lambda: p50, p99

• FirstByteLatency and TotalRequestLatencyin AWS/S3: p50, p90, p95, p99, p99.9

• ResponseLatency in AWS/Polly and TargetResponseTime in AWS/ApplicationELB: p50, p90, p95, p99

• Latency and IntegrationLatency in AWS/ApiGateway: p90, p95, p99

• Latency and TargetResponseTime in AWS/ELB: p95, p99

• RequestLatency in AWS/AppRunner: p50, p95, p99

• ActivityTime, ExecutionTime, LambdaFunctionRunTime, LambdaFunctionScheduleTime, LambdaFunctionTime, ActivityRunTime, and ActivityScheduleTime in AWS/States: p95, p99

• EncoderBitRate, ConfiguredBitRate, and ConfiguredBitRateAvailable in AWS/MediaLive: p90

• Latency in AWS/AppSync: p90

Dynatrace stream defaults

Quick partner setup streams to Dynatrace use the following defaults:

• Output format: OpenTelemetry 0.7.0

• Firehose stream content encoding GZIP

• Firehose stream buffering options Interval of 60 seconds, size of 5 MBs

• Firehose stream retry option Duration of 600 seconds

New Relic stream defaults

Quick partner setup streams to New Relic use the following defaults:

• Output format: OpenTelemetry 0.7.0

• Firehose stream content encoding GZIP

• Firehose stream buffering options Interval of 60 seconds, size of 1 MB

• Firehose stream retry option Duration of 60 seconds

Splunk Observability Cloud stream defaults

Quick partner setup streams to Splunk Observability Cloud use the following defaults:

• Output format: OpenTelemetry 0.7.0

• Firehose stream content encoding GZIP

• Firehose stream buffering options Interval of 60 seconds, size of 1 MB

• Firehose stream retry option Duration of 300 seconds

Sumo Logic stream defaults

Quick partner setup streams to Sumo Logic use the following defaults:

• Output format: OpenTelemetry 0.7.0

• Firehose stream content encoding GZIP

• Firehose stream buffering options Interval of 60 seconds, size of 1 MB

• Firehose stream retry option Duration of 60 seconds