https://www.cloudkaramchari.com/categories/monitoring/Recent content in Monitoring on CloudkaramchariHugo -- gohugo.ioencloudkaramchariMon, 10 Aug 2026 23:00:00 +0530https://www.cloudkaramchari.com/blog/cloudwatch-managed-prometheus-collectors-setup-guide/Mon, 10 Aug 2026 23:00:00 +0530https://www.cloudkaramchari.com/blog/cloudwatch-managed-prometheus-collectors-setup-guide/ <h1 id="cloudwatch-managed-prometheus-collectors-setup-guide-for-ec2-and-ecs">CloudWatch Managed Prometheus Collectors: Setup Guide for EC2 and ECS</h1> <p>If you've been running your own OpenTelemetry Collector just to get Prometheus metrics into CloudWatch, AWS shipped the fix in late July 2026: <strong>managed Prometheus collectors</strong>. You hand CloudWatch a scrape config and a VPC connection, and it provisions, scales, and runs the scraper for you — no EC2 instance or Fargate task babysitting a Collector binary. This walks through actually setting one up for EC2 and ECS targets, not just the announcement.</p>