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Reputation: 81

Diagnosing Root Cause of Increasing AWS Cloudwatch Costs

Over the past few months our Cloudwatch costs have steadily risen. This seems to be caused by metric updates. RUM was enabled for a short time but has been disabled for about 2 months now. This is not a high traffic account only currently being used for development by a single person. Help troubleshooting this would be appreciated.

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Upvotes: 1

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Reputation: 4077

Metric updates operation is related to CloudWatch Metric Streams which can be used to send CloudWatch metrics to an AWS partner e.g. New Relic, Datadog, Dynatrace, etc.

As indicated in pricing page it has a cost of $0.003 per 1,000 metric updates.

To check if you have one or more metric streams enabled enter to CloudWatch -> Metrics -> Streams:

CloudWatch Metric Streams on console

And then you can delete it, stop it or re-configure it to limit the ingestion to a specific metric namespace

CloudWatch Metric Streams example

Upvotes: 5

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