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# AWS CloudWatch Metrics

> Send Pipeline metrics to AWS CloudWatch for monitoring, with configuration for credentials, compression, namespace, and region.

## Description

Send your metrics to[ AWS Cloudwatch](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/working_with_metrics.html)  for monitoring.

## Configuration Options

| Option            | Description                                                        |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Access Key ID     | AWS Access Key ID                                                  |
| Secret Access Key | AWS Secret Access Key                                              |
| Compression       | Whether to compress the outgoing payload. Options: none or gzip    |
| Namespace         | Name for the container that will isolate metrics from one another. |
| Region            | The name of the AWS region that is targeted.                       |

## Health Check

This sink is set up to automatically perform a health check on the AWS Cloudwatch Instance. In doing so, it will emit a `healthcheck` metric into your namespace.