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+include ../../Makefile.Common
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+# CloudWatch Metrics Receiver
+
+| Status                   |               |
+| ------------------------ | ------------- |
+| Stability                | [development] |
+| Supported pipeline types | metrics       |
+| Distributions            | [contrib]     |
+
+Receives Cloudwatch metrics from [AWS Cloudwatch](https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/) via the [AWS SDK for Cloudwatch Logs](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-go/api/service/cloudwatchlogs/)
+
+## Getting Started
+
+This receiver uses the [AWS SDK](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-go/v1/developer-guide/configuring-sdk.html) as mode of authentication, which includes [Profile](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-configure-profiles.html) and [IMDS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-instance-metadata.html) authentication for EC2 instances.
+
+## Configuration
+
+### Top Level Parameters
+
+| Parameter       | Notes      | type   | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
+| --------------- | ---------- | ------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| `region`        | *required* | string | The AWS recognized region string                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
+| `profile`       | *optional* | string | The AWS profile used to authenticate, if none is specified the default is chosen from the list of profiles                                                                                                                                                                        |
+| `imds_endpoint` | *optional* | string | A way of specifying a custom URL to be used by the EC2 IMDS client to validate the session. If unset, and the environment variable `AWS_EC2_METADATA_SERVICE_ENDPOINT` has a value the client will use the value of the environment variable as the endpoint for operation calls. |
+| `metrics`          | *optional* | `Metrics` | Configuration for metrics ingestion of this receiver                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
+
+### Metrics Parameters
+
+| Parameter                | Notes        | type                   | Description                                                                                |
+| ------------------------ | ------------ | ---------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
+| `poll_interval`          | `default=1m` | duration               | The duration waiting in between requests.                                                  |
+| `max_events_per_request` | `default=50` | int                    | The maximum number of events to process per request to Cloudwatch                          |
+| `groups`                 | *optional*   | `See Group Parameters` | Configuration for Log Groups, by default all Log Groups and Log Streams will be collected. |
+
+### Group Parameters
+
+`named` is the way to control and filter which metrics collected . They are mutually exclusive and are incompatible to be configured at the same time.
+
+- `named`
+  - This is a map of log group name to stream filtering options
+    - `namespace`: (optional)
+      - `metric_names`: A list of full log stream names to filter the discovered log groups to collect from.
+      - `metric_name_prefixes`: A list of prefixes to filter the discovered log groups to collect from.
+
+
+#### Named Example
+
+```yaml
+awscloudwatchmetrics:
+  region: us-west-1
+  poll_interval: 5m
+  metrics:
+    named:
+      - namespace: /aws/eks/dev-0/cluster: 
+        metric_names: [kube-apiserver-ea9c831555adca1815ae04b87661klasdj]
+```
+
+## Sample Configs
+
+
+[alpha]:https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector#alpha
+[contrib]:https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-releases/tree/main/distributions/otelcol-contrib
+[Issue]:https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/issues/15667
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