Grafana 2.5 Released – Cloudwatch support

For people who do not know what Grafana is. Grafana is a highly popular open source web application for visualizing time series metrics. Used mainly in infrastructure and application monitoring and analytic's but also in many other areas.

Grafana supports reading metrics from many of the most popular time series databases like Graphite, InfluxDB and OpenTSDB. This release also adds support to use Elasticsearch, Cloudwatch and Prometheus as data sources.

http://grafana.org to learn more

Wow! As a previous AWS engineer I found the default CloudWatch web client terrible. This is a nice alternative.