Amazon CloudWatch introduces PromQL querying with Query Studio Preview

Posted on: Apr 3, 2026

Amazon CloudWatch announces Query Studio in public preview, a unified query and visualization experience that brings native PromQL querying to CloudWatch for the first time. Query Studio combines PromQL and CloudWatch Metric Insights in a single interface, enabling you to query AWS vended metrics and OpenTelemetry metrics using the language you prefer without switching between consoles.

Query Studio provides a visual form builder with autocomplete and a code editor with syntax highlighting, making it accessible to both new and experienced users. For example, a team running applications on Amazon EC2 can correlate their custom OpenTelemetry application metrics with EC2 vended metrics side by side, quickly spot issues across their stack, and create alarms or add charts to dashboards directly from their query results.

Amazon CloudWatch Query Studio is available in public preview in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Europe (Ireland). Standard CloudWatch dashboard pricing applies, see pricing page for details.

To get started, open Query Studio from the Metrics console or dashboard edit mode in the Amazon CloudWatch console. Learn more on the Amazon CloudWatch documentation page.