Can't find a particular namespace in the CloudWatch editor

Grafana Cloudwatch
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Need help :wink:

When using the AWS cloudwatch Datasource, we are unable to get AWS/NetworkManager namespace metrics to pull and enable reporting in dashboards.

  1. The Metrics page displays the following usage metrics for the specified edge location during the chosen time frame.
  • Bytes in
  • Bytes out
  • Bytes dropped - black hole
  • Bytes dropped - no route
  • Packets in
  • Packets out

Please note, that all other metrics from AWS appear to be pulled. Just AWS\NetworkManager is missing.

We even attempted a direct default to us-west-2 and a custom namespace of AWS\NetworkManager which still is empty.

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Pls provide more details/screenshots.

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I would love to, but what screenshots would you be expecting for a simplistic data source that’s not pulling a metric.? I mean I can show you what it looks like in AWS and at the metrics available and then I can show you that it’s not available in grafana.

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Screenshot of your query editor in Grafana vs query in AWS console with data is a good start.

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It’s pretty self explanatory. As I have stated above, the name space is not present.

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You stated above different problem. You also mixed AWS/NetworkManager vs AWS\NetworkManager (and real is AWS/Network Manager). So you are typical users: vague problem description and expects exact copy&paste solution :-D.
We moved from “we are unable to get AWS/NetworkManager namespace metrics” to “the name space is not present” (so consequence is: not able to pull metrics), which is correct description of your problem.

That list of namespaces is hardcoded and AWS\NetworkManager is not in the source: grafana-aws-sdk/pkg/cloudWatchConsts/metrics.go at main ¡ grafana/grafana-aws-sdk ¡ GitHub
So this is correct. But what looks like select box is not real select box and you can write own value there - just follow instructions:
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It will be very nice from you if you create pull request to update that hardcoded list, so any user will be able to select that namespace from convenient UI.

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Thank you Jan for the help and the banter ;/

Are the other grafana data source similar, just for reference for future finds.

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Each datasource is different.

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Great post, learned a lot.