Amazon CloudWatch Introduces OpenTelemetry Metrics Support in Preview

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Learn how to use OpenTelemetry metrics in Amazon CloudWatch to unify your monitoring metrics and improve observability

intermediate Published 29 Apr 2026

Action Steps

Enable OpenTelemetry metrics support in Amazon CloudWatch
Install the OpenTelemetry SDK in your application
Configure your application to send metrics to CloudWatch using the OpenTelemetry protocol
View and analyze your metrics in CloudWatch alongside existing AWS service metrics
Use CloudWatch alarms and notifications to alert on custom metrics

Who Needs to Know This

Developers and DevOps teams can benefit from this update by streamlining their monitoring workflows and gaining better insights into their application performance

Key Insight

💡 OpenTelemetry metrics support in CloudWatch allows for a unified view of application performance and AWS service metrics