Metric streams output formats - Amazon CloudWatch
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Metric streams output formats

The data in a CloudWatch metric stream can be in the JSON format or the OpenTelemetry format. Currently, both the OpenTelemetry 1.0.0 and 0.7.0 formats are supported.