Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey Gets OpenTelemetry Metrics and Detailed Monitoring

Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey now publishes OpenTelemetry metrics to CloudWatch, letting you monitor node-based clusters with 15-second granularity and PromQL queries—perfect for catching connection limits, memory issues, and latency spikes before they bite you. Available across all AWS Regions with no extra ElastiCache charges, though CloudWatch pricing applies to the metrics and queries you actually use.