Metrics importer for Amazon AWS CloudWatch from Prometheus

1. Clone git clone https://github.com/tivaliy/cloudwatch_importer.git

2. Create isolated Python environment virtualenv cw_importer_venv and activate it source cw_importer_venv/bin/activate

3. Install all necessary dependencies: pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Configure config.yaml to meet your requirements. Specify metrics you want to import to Amazon AWS CloudWatch (metrics) from Prometheus:

      url: http:https://localhost:9090/
      aws-region: eu-central-1
      namespace: TestNamespace
      metrics:
        - go_memstats_alloc_bytes_total
        - go_goroutines
        - go_memstats_last_gc_time_seconds

5. Make sure that your ~/.aws/credentials file is configured properly (or see for more details the ways of how Configuring Credentials)

6. Run python import_metrics.py script (e.g. python import_metrics.py -c config.yaml)