Issue with Grafana reading Billing metrics from CloudWatch.

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Hi, I am unable to get Aws/billing data in Grafana.

I integrated my AWS Cloudwatch with Grafana. I am getting metrics from other services perfectly like Lambda, EC2, EBS, FSx..etc but not getting aws billing data.

Also, I have tried to switch regions to the region where I have deployed my servers as well as us-east-1 but still, I get no data from AWS/Billing.

The Grafana access role has CloudWatch and Billing ReadOnlyAccess.

Any ideas how I can get around this issue?

Venkatakrishna Pullela · Answer

Several factors could prevent AWS/Billing metrics from appearing in your Grafana dashboards:

For instance, Billing Alerts may not be Enabled: CloudWatch billing metrics must be specifically enabled in your AWS account before they can be queried, next is Region Requirement: AWS/Billing metrics are only available in the US East (N. Virginia) region (us-east-1), regardless of where your resources are deployed. Lastly, review IAM Permissions: While you have CloudWatch and Billing ReadOnlyAccess, additional specific permissions might be required.

Issue with Grafana reading Billing metrics from CloudWatch.

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