[Feature Request] Add accumulated api requests made to cloudwatch API endpoint

[jnmarquis]

As CloudWatch is not free beyond the 1M requests, Telegraf's CloudWatch input plugin should keep a counter of the api requests made to CloudWatch API in order to estimate monthly costs for this service.
cloudwatch_exporter from Prometheus provides this counter and should not be very difficult to implement in Telegraf.

[danielnelson]

Sounds like a good idea, is this something you are interested in working on?

[jnmarquis]

I'm no Go expert, but could give it a go

[danielnelson]

Yeah give it a shot, it might make sense to do it as a selfstat.Stat. There is an example of how to use it in influxdb_listener. These metrics are only emitted when the internal input plugin is enabled.

[sspaink]

@jnmarquis seems tracking API requests hasn't been implemented yet, but it looks like #5544 helped make the cloudwatch plugin more cost effective which could help. Are you still interested in seeing feature implemented?

[telegraf-tiger]

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