fix(inputs.cloudwatch): Option to produce dense metrics #15317
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Summary
Introduces a new config option called
metric_format
to the cloudwatch plugin to produce metrics in eithersparse
(default) ordense
metric format. Sparse produces unique field names for every AWS Metric name + statistic (e.g.latency_avg
,latency_sum
, etc.), while dense will make the AWS metric name a tag (e.g.latency
) and use fields for the various statisitics (e.g.avg
,sum
).Checklist