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AWS AmazonCloudWatch documentation change

Service: AmazonCloudWatch · 2026-06-13 · Documentation low

File: AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/UsingResourceTagsForTelemetry.md

Summary

Added documentation about querying AWS metrics with PromQL using resource tags.

Security assessment

Change enhances observability features but contains no security context, vulnerability fixes, or security-specific documentation.

Diff

diff --git a/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/UsingResourceTagsForTelemetry.md b/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/UsingResourceTagsForTelemetry.md
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@@ -16,0 +17,2 @@ Once you have enabled resource tags for telemetry, you can leverage this enriche
+  * **Querying AWS metrics with PromQL using resource tags** – After you enable resource tags for telemetry in your account, you can enable OTel enrichment to query your AWS infrastructure metrics using PromQL with resource tags as labels. This lets you filter, aggregate, and alert on metrics by any tag you've applied to your AWS resources. For more information, see [Enabling vended metrics in PromQL](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch-OTelEnrichment.html). For example queries using tags, see [Querying vended AWS metrics with PromQL](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch-PromQL-Querying.html#CloudWatch-PromQL-Querying-Vended).
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