From dd7ad4c3d66ffa4144e133f9e1193e01a87fcc2a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Jara=20Su=C3=A1rez=20de=20Puga=20Garc=C3=ADa?= Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 10:31:50 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Docs note on Cross-account observability permissions for CW datasource (#95034) --- 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