Software Engineering Understanding the Operational Costs of Rusty CloudWatch Exporter An analysis of Rusty CloudWatch Exporter's operational expenses, emphasizing how its architecture influences the costs associated with fetching metrics from AWS, both in nominal terms and in comparison with alternative mechanisms.
Software Engineering Better AWS CloudWatch Exporter: Ingestion Architecture Overview How to leverage AWS CloudWatch Metric Streams to build a Prometheus exporter for AWS metrics: overall ingestion architecture, pros and cons versus using the CloudWatch API.
Software Engineering The Unsatisfying State of Prometheus-Based Monitoring of AWS Infrastructure Given that Prometheus and AWS are both industries standards, once would - incorrectly - assume that it would be easy to ingest AWS metrics into Prometheus. Here I explore the main flaws in the current tooling to ingest CloudWatch metrics into Prometheus.
