Matthias Rampke

I am wary of allowing users to override (potentially security relevant) endpoints. Under what circumstances is this necessary? The exporter uses a few different APIs; would the user have to...

Yes that's a good idea, then we can get the option out sooner

I don't think this is possible at the moment, but I see the value in a simple "give me everything" option for simple situations. It should probably be opt-in, given...

See also #351 for a more specific request for automatic discovery.

Some only vaguely connected thoughts on this: We should probably not default to scraping all namespaces due to cost. How common is it to have an open set of namespaces?...

(removing the help wanted label until we know what exactly we want)

Another, more fundamental question, is how a `cloudwatch_exporter` with automatic discovery would relate to [YACE](https://github.com/nerdswords/yet-another-cloudwatch-exporter). I don't particularly want to expend effort solving the same use case twice, unless there...

@djloude that's neat! Do you want to submit a PR to add a link to the readme?

Thank you, I think that's a valid request, but it is a ways off as you noted. Given YACE is closer to having it, I would however encourage implementing it...

Looking at the [API](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/APIReference/API_GetMetricData.html), it seems that you can _either_ ask for a `MetricStat` _or_ an expression in each individual query, but you can reference (named) metrics that you are...