Concise summaries of official AWS update announcements for Amazon CloudWatch.
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Information as of November 3, 2026.
Managed Prometheus collectors for Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus and Amazon CloudWatch now support Amazon MSK consumer-group metrics, collecting Kafka exporter and consumer-group lag metrics to help detect processing bottlenecks in streaming applications.
Amazon Managed Grafana now supports in-place upgrades from Grafana version 12.4 to 13.2, bringing features like Git Sync for dashboards, dynamic dashboards, and PromQL query support in the Amazon CloudWatch data source plugin
Amazon CloudWatch Alarms now includes alarm tags in action payloads and Amazon EventBridge events, allowing customers to route and filter alarm notifications by tag without additional lookups.
Amazon CloudWatch Omni, an AI-powered observability experience, is now available in eight additional AWS Regions, enabling unified monitoring across AWS accounts, Regions, and other clouds with chat and agent tool interactions.
Amazon CloudWatch now supports conditional log routing and chained parsers via pipelines, providing more control over how log data is transformed and routed to CloudWatch log groups
Amazon ECS introduces LiveTaskCount, a new service metric reporting actively running tasks, available at no cost. RunningTaskCount metric in CloudWatch Container Insights is now free for all users.
Amazon Managed Grafana now supports creating workspaces with Grafana version 13.2, introducing features like Git Sync for dashboards, dynamic dashboards, and PromQL query support in the CloudWatch data source plugin
Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights provides a way to estimate the volume of log data, in bytes, that a query would scan across selected log groups and time ranges without executing the query, allowing users to adjust selections before running queries
Amazon CloudWatch Omni delivers AI-powered observability centered around teams and applications, combining OpenTelemetry interoperability with CloudWatch scale and reliability for unified monitoring across AWS accounts, Regions, and Azure workloads.
Amazon MWAA now features a built-in monitoring experience with a CloudWatch metrics dashboard and alarms table, plus one-click creation of recommended alarms
Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights now enables monitoring of self-managed PostgreSQL instances on Amazon EC2, using the same console and workflows as AWS-managed databases.
Amazon CloudWatch now allows configuration of warm-up periods for metric and log alarms, reducing unnecessary notifications during resource startup
Amazon CloudWatch pipelines now includes three new processors for parsing and enriching log data: an RDS log parser, an XML parser, and a GeoIP enrichment processor.
Amazon CloudWatch log centralization now copies tags from source log groups to destination groups, allowing teams to use them for access control and cost reporting.
Amazon CloudWatch Alarms now offers wall clock evaluation windows, allowing customers to align alarm evaluations to fixed calendar boundaries such as the top of the hour, midnight, or the start of the week. This helps prevent false alarms in scheduled workloads.
Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports Application Load Balancer logs as vended logs, improving observability and simplifying debugging for network traffic patterns.
Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now allows the use of customer-managed AWS KMS keys to encrypt canary environment variables, providing enhanced control over sensitive configuration data encryption.
Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights adds 25 new commands and functions, enabling statistical aggregation, null value handling in time-series data, log comparison across time windows, outlier detection, and event enrichment with lookup data.
Amazon CloudWatch pipelines now enables processing and enriching OpenTelemetry metrics during ingestion. Users can add business context, remove high-cardinality labels, and enforce naming conventions without custom processing layers or modifying application instrumentation.
Amazon CloudWatch adds tag support for dashboards, enabling organization, access control, and filtering of dashboards using tags
Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics introduces multilocation canaries, enabling developers and site reliability engineers to run the same canary across multiple AWS Regions simultaneously from a single management point
Amazon CloudWatch now offers Log Analytics, unifying CloudWatch Logs Insights, Live Tail, and Contributor Insights in one console. Users can run multiple queries, use existing features, and access all tools from this default interface.
Amazon CloudWatch Query Studio now generally available, enabling unified querying and visualization of metrics across multiple accounts and regions using PromQL or Metrics Insights
Amazon CloudWatch provides cross-account and cross-region metrics centralization, allowing automatic replication of metrics to a single destination account for unified monitoring and management.
Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals adds service health ranking to the application map and new infrastructure, logs, and traces tabs on the service overview page, enabling operators to quickly identify and investigate degraded services.
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