prometheus/cloudwatch_exporter

[metrics]: How to use `use_get_metric_data`?

victoramsantos opened this issue · 2 comments

victoramsantos commented

Context information

I'm in a situation where we can't ask AWS to increase our quota anymore (we are already on 300 rps). We thought that changing from GetMetricStatistics to GetMetricData would reduce the API burn. However we saw that we are already using the flag use_get_metric_data like

region: {{REGION}}
delay_seconds: 300
use_get_metric_data: true <- HERE
metrics:
  - aws_namespace: AWS/DynamoDB
    aws_metric_name: ProvisionedWriteCapacityUnits
    aws_dimensions: [TableName]
    aws_dimension_select_regex:
      TableName: ["ABC"]
    aws_statistics: [Average]
...

I think as a global flag. However I could see in various issues in this repository people using it directly through the metric itself and I didn't find any doc explaining where to use it.
So my doubt is if we are effectively using it. Can some one help with this?

SuperQ commented

It is a global flag, but it can be optionally toggled per metric.

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victoramsantos commented

Nice, I just opened a PR to clarify it on the README 😊

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