Pulling in metrics from multiple AWS accounts

[johnjeffers]

Is it possible to pull in metrics from multiple AWS accounts? I've tried running multiple copies (using different names) connecting to different AWS accounts, but the last one that starts takes over the external metrics API, so the metrics from the other account are no longer available.

[chankh]

It does not work that way, at any one time there can only be one external metrics provider, that's why the last one takes over the API in your case. Right now this adapter does not support pulling metrics from multiple AWS accounts. In fact this is a good suggestion.

[johnjeffers]

Any progress on this? It would be extremely helpful!

[CarloColumna]

+1 on this. This feature would be very valuable for us as well.

[mmingorance-dh]

Would be good if the adapter could use federation to retrieve metrics from other accounts as well.

[mukaibot]

Another +1 here. At my work the PaaS team operates an EKS cluster in account A, but we are encouraged to deploy our application resources (Queues, Topics, databases etc) in separate accounts B-Z. This leads to the frustrating situation of requiring an IAM role that can access things in both accounts, which is a bit harder for us to maintain - there's extra testing and coordination.

If we could get metrics from separate accounts then we could use the HPA to scale Pods based on an SQS queue that lives in a different account, making life much easier for us.