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Cloud Changelog
Amazon CloudWatch changelog
123 announcements since January 2025 · 6 GA · 2 previews · 1 price change · 3 Region expansions
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October 20267
Collect Amazon MSK Kafka exporter and consumer-group lag metrics
Alarm tags can be included in SNS, Lambda and EventBridge action payloads
Expanded to eight more Regions, including Canada, Asia Pacific, Frankfurt, London and São PauloRegion
Adds conditional log routing to log groups and chained parser processors
DNS analytics through CloudWatch metrics and Contributor Insights, plus a new Analytics console tab
September 20265
New workspaces can use Grafana 13.2, with Git Sync, dynamic dashboards and PromQL in CloudWatch
Console shows CloudWatch metrics dashboard, alarms table and one-click recommended alarms
Monitors self-managed PostgreSQL on Amazon EC2 alongside RDS and Aurora
Warm-up period of 1 to 2,880 minutes delays alarm evaluation after creation
August 20264
Reads systemd journal (journald) logs directly and sends them to CloudWatch Logs
Copies source log group tags to destination log groups and keeps them in sync
Adds RDS log parser, XML parser and GeoIP enrichment processors
Wall clock evaluation windows align metric alarms to calendar boundaries, with time zone support
July 20261
June 20267
Processes and enriches OpenTelemetry metrics during ingestion at no additional cost
Dashboards support tags, up to 50 per dashboard, via API and CloudFormation
Multilocation canaries run one canary across multiple Regions from a primary Region
Health ranking on application map and infrastructure, logs and traces tabs on service overview
May 20263
April 202610
Visual configuration editor in the EC2 console, with tag-based fleet policies
App Monitors overview shows fleet-wide health, SLO breaches and tracing coverage on one page
Log processors can be configured from natural language descriptions using generative AI
Available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (eusc-de-east-1)Region
Cross-region telemetry auditing and enablement rules managed from a single region
Conditional processing across 21 processors and a new Drop Events processor
Adds keep-original log toggle, transformed-log metadata and IAM condition keys for pipeline creation
Unified PromQL and Metric Insights querying and visualization, in five RegionsPreview
OpenTelemetry metrics with up to 150 labels per metric, queryable with PromQLPreview
March 20265
Ingests Security Hub CSPM findings in ASFF and OCSF, with organization-wide enablement rules
Centralization rules can target logs by data source name and type
Three new CloudWatch metrics report BGP session status and prefix counts for virtual interfaces
Organization-wide enablement rules turn on EC2 detailed monitoring for existing and new instances
Adds SLO Recommendations, Service-Level SLOs and SLO Performance Report in the console