Does anyone have anything good or bad to share about using Grafana as a front end for metrics logged in AWS cloudwatch? I know it has a plug in and I'm fed up with how bad the cloudwatch dashboards are so wondering if I should check it out.
Well, I’d say give it a try. We are using CloudWatch as a Grafana datasource, because this way you can concentrate more of your monitoring to one place, which is useful during troubleshooting. With Grafana 7.x, you can even check and correlate your CloudWatch logs inside Grafana, deeplinked to the AWS Console. After this major version, you can even wire Jaeger into Grafana, so you have a one stop solution for tracing as well (and logging, if you utilize Loki too).
