From 1cd87ca64f25ae36c683340e4c05695fedbc7707 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "grafana-delivery-bot[bot]" <132647405+grafana-delivery-bot[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 10:06:19 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] [v11.2.x] Docs note on Cross-account observability permissions for CW datasource (#95124) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Co-authored-by: Jara Suárez de Puga García --- docs/sources/datasources/aws-cloudwatch/_index.md | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/sources/datasources/aws-cloudwatch/_index.md b/docs/sources/datasources/aws-cloudwatch/_index.md index 5729ce54e01..9df9b327629 100644 --- a/docs/sources/datasources/aws-cloudwatch/_index.md +++ b/docs/sources/datasources/aws-cloudwatch/_index.md @@ -238,6 +238,10 @@ You can attach these permissions to the IAM role or IAM user you configured in [ } ``` +{{< admonition type="note" >}} +Cross-account observability lets you to retrieve metrics and logs across different accounts in a single region but you can't query EC2 Instance Attributes across accounts because those come from the EC2 API and not the CloudWatch API. +{{< /admonition >}} + ### Configure CloudWatch settings #### Namespaces of Custom Metrics