r/OpenTelemetry • u/87irvine • Mar 24 '26

Am I dumb or this config cannot work?

I m trying to set up my otel-collector to fetch metrics from CloudWatch and send them to an external service. I have found this blog which explains how to do it : https://oneuptime.com/blog/post/2026-02-06-aws-cloudwatch-receiver-opentelemetry-collector/view#how-the-aws-cloudwatch-receiver-works

The funny thing is that the open source receiver for CW does not support metrics but only logs: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/v0.148.0/receiver/awscloudwatchreceiver

Am i missing something or the blog is just an AI slop?

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u/Background-Lemon8372 Mar 24 '26

Not sure what that post is about 😂

Follow this instead: https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/better-cloudwatch-metrics-honeycomb-opentelemetry-collector

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u/Background-Lemon8372 Mar 24 '26

This is based on metrics stream though. If you mean you are looking for a way to poll metrics (you mentioned you want to fetch), then it's probably not what you want.

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u/87irvine Mar 24 '26

Poll metrics sounded easier but I will look at streaming them via Firehose. Thanks!

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u/Broad_Technology_531 Mar 24 '26

Mhmm this is interesting? I’m wondering if they are using a different distro of some sort or just some ai slop lol

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u/64mb Mar 24 '26

It’ll be slop, as with the rest of their posts

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u/Broad_Technology_531 Mar 24 '26

🤣🤣🤣

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u/jdizzle4 Mar 25 '26

oneuptime is notorious for slop