Global accesible metrics not being pulled

I am trying to pull metrics from our us-east-1 AWS account in order to pull Cloudfront and Cloudtrail metrics.
Per the documentation, the Region value must be Global
However that does not work. From this thread, setting the region to us-east-1 should solve the issue. However, it did not.

Here is my configuration file:

region: us-east-1
metrics:
   - aws_namespace: WAF
     aws_metric_name: BlockedRequests
     aws_statistics: [Sum]

   - aws_namespace: AWS/Billing
     aws_dimensions: [Currency]
     aws_dimensions_select:
       Currency: [USD]
     aws_metric_name: EstimatedCharges
     aws_statistics: [Maximum]
     range_seconds: 86400

   - aws_namespace: AWS/CloudFront
     aws_metric_name: Requests
     aws_statistics: [Sum]
     aws_dimensions: [DistributionId]

And here is the metrics being scraped

curl localhost:9106/metrics
# HELP aws_billing_estimated_charges_maximum CloudWatch metric AWS/Billing EstimatedCharges Dimensions: [Currency] Statistic: Maximum Unit: None
# TYPE aws_billing_estimated_charges_maximum gauge
aws_billing_estimated_charges_maximum{job="aws_billing",instance="",currency="USD",} XXXXXX
# HELP cloudwatch_exporter_scrape_duration_seconds Time this CloudWatch scrape took, in seconds.
# TYPE cloudwatch_exporter_scrape_duration_seconds gauge
cloudwatch_exporter_scrape_duration_seconds XXXXXX
# HELP cloudwatch_exporter_scrape_error Non-zero if this scrape failed.
# TYPE cloudwatch_exporter_scrape_error gauge
cloudwatch_exporter_scrape_error 0.0
# HELP cloudwatch_requests_total API requests made to CloudWatch
# TYPE cloudwatch_requests_total counter
cloudwatch_requests_total XXXXX

When logged in in the AWS console, the Cloudwatch and Cloudtrail logs are indeed present.

Do I miss something ?

PS: It is a duplicate from here, but unfortunately the ticket has been closed without solution.

[eranreshef]

I am running into a similiar problem, but with WAFV2 instead of CloudFront. Unfortunately, the above solution does not work for me. My configuration is:

metrics:
  - aws_namespace: AWS/WAFV2
    aws_metric_name: BlockedRequests
    aws_dimensions: [Rule, WebACL, Region]
    aws_dimensions_select:
      Region: [eu-west-1]

I am not specifying the Region parameter as the exporter is running on an EC2 instance and it should be automatically taken from the instance metadata. When I call localhost:9106/metrics I get all the metrics from other services and:

cloudwatch_requests_total{action="listMetrics",namespace="AWS/WAFV2",} 129.0
cloudwatch_requests_total{action="getMetricStatistics",namespace="AWS/WAFV2",} 1753.0

without the actual WAF metrics, but when I try with aws-cli aws cloudwatch list-metrics --namespace AWS/WAFV2 --metric-name BlockedRequests --dimensions Name=Region,Value=eu-west-1 I get the list of all the available metrics that meet these conditions.

What am I doing wrong here?

[Mornor]

Sure! I’ll create a pull request today 😃 https://github.com/prometheus/cloudwatch_exporter/pull/110