#prometheus - September 2022

Q: has anybody setup AWS cloudwatch metrics to Prometheus using Cloudwatch Metric Streams? Newbie DBA, trying to get RDS metrics into prometheus/grafana. I'm told that a std exporter would start to cost $$ because of constant polling. Would the following architecture work?

cloudwatch metric streams => Kinesis Data Firehose => Prometheus ??

Hi all, wondering if anyone has a solution they could share for running analytics over historical alerts from alertmanager? For example, “alert X fired 10 times in July and 30 times in August”. This would allow the monitoring team in company Y to investigate the biggest drain for the on-call shift over time. I understand it’s a design decision of AM to not persist any state but in medium/large environments I think it’s an important area that often gets overlooked. Thanks.