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CloudWatch Metric Streams
- Provides a continuous, near real-time feed of CloudWatch metrics to external destinations.
- Delivers with low latency (seconds).
- Destinations:
- Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose → S3, Redshift, OpenSearch, Athena
- Partner integrations → Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic, Splunk, Sumo Logic
- Supports filtering to include only specific metrics/namespaces.
- Useful for centralized monitoring, cross-account aggregation, and advanced analytics outside CloudWatch.
- Push model (unlike CloudWatch GetMetricData, which is pull-based).