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Connect AWS CloudWatch

AWS CloudWatch is a data source for error budgets: Agile Analytics reads your metrics every 30 minutes and measures each SLO against them.

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1. Create an access key

  1. In the AWS console, open IAM → Users and create a user for Agile Analytics, for example agile-analytics-slo, without console access.
  2. Attach the CloudWatchReadOnlyAccess policy. Nothing else is needed; Agile Analytics only reads.
  3. Open the user, go to Security credentials → Create access key, choose Third-party service, and copy the Access key ID and the Secret access key. AWS shows the secret once.

2. Add the data source

  1. In Agile Analytics, go to Settings → Error Budgets, press Add Data Source and choose AWS CloudWatch.
  2. Give it a name and enter the access key ID and secret.
  3. Press Test to check the credentials, then Save.

3. Add services and SLOs

Continue on the Error budgets page: Error budgets.

Replacing the key

Enter the new key on the existing card and press Update backend. An invalid or rotated key shows up as a failed last job on the Error budgets page, and the SLOs stop updating until it is replaced.