Posted On: Dec 8, 2023

Amazon CloudWatch now supports Metrics Insights in Cross-Account observability. With Amazon CloudWatch cross-account observability, you can use Metrics Insights to monitor and troubleshoot applications that span multiple accounts within a Region.

CloudWatch Metrics Insights is a powerful, high-performance SQL query engine that you can use to query metrics at scale. Using Cross-Account Metrics Insights you can now construct queries from a central monitoring account to aggregate infrastructure or applications metrics across across multiple accounts. You can also set Cross Account Metrics Insights alarms that dynamically adjust across all your source accounts within a Region.ENnbsp;

Cross-Account Metrics Insights is now available in all commercial Amazon Web Services Regions.

To get started, you first need to setup CloudWatch cross-account observability. Once configuration is complete, please refer to CloudWatch Metrics Insights documentation for further information. Cross-account Metrics Insights queries run in the console free of charge. Standard pricing applies for the APIs and Alarms, see Amazon CloudWatch pricing page for details.