In this video, we showcase our latest feature: touchless management of AWS CloudWatch scrape jobs using Terraform.

🔑 What You'll Learn in This Demo:

• Setting up and managing access policies and stacks in Grafana Cloud.
• Using Terraform to configure a Grafana provider and an AWS provider.
• Automating service-to-service connections between Grafana Cloud and AWS.
• Creating and enriching scrape jobs with resource metadata and custom namespaces.
• Viewing and exploring enriched metrics in the Grafana Cloud portal.

📌 Key Highlights:

A fully Terraform-managed setup (excluding an initial access policy).
Detailed walkthrough of providers, IAM roles, and policies.
Demo of scrape job metrics, including EC2, RDS, and custom namespaces like "CoolApp."
Insights on leveraging tags and PromQL for advanced metric filtering.
💡 Whether you're looking to simplify your AWS CloudWatch integrations or explore touchless Terraform workflows, this video is packed with actionable insights!

Helpful links:

📜 Grafana Terraform Provider Docs: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/developer-resources/infrastructure-as-code/terraform/

📜 AWS CloudWatch Data Source Docs: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/datasources/aws-cloudwatch/

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