Prometheus Cloudwatch exporter configuration generation

gistfile1.txt

# This command shows all the metrics from all the services in use on the account and region used
# Different services and configurations might have more or less metrics than others. eg. When using T instance types you would get CPU credits related metrics otherwise you won't
#
# AWS Cloudwatch metrics namespaces https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/aws-services-cloudwatch-metrics.html
aws cloudwatch list-metrics --namespace AWS/ES > metrics.json

# Add 'select(.MetricName | contains("FreeStorageSpace")) |' to JQ pipe to filter by name
#
# this snippet will not add the instances identifiers and remove duplicated entries (one per instace)
cat metrics.json | jq -r '.Metrics
| map({
    (.MetricName):
        {
            aws_namespace: (.Namespace),
            aws_metric_name: (.MetricName),
            aws_dimensions: (.Dimensions | map(.Name)),
            aws_statistics: ["Average"]
        }
    })
| add
| to_entries
| map(.value)' | yq -P | xclip -sel clip