How do you get Application Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) metrics to show up under Splunk App for AWS Cloudwatch metrics?
In the current version (4.4) - open the Splunk Add-On for AWS:
After a few minutes your index should be populated with the metrics.
General Note:
Some of the cloudwatch namespaces appear by default when you select New Input - Cloudwatch (e.g. EC2,
Many more are available when you click on Add namespace and start typing
Some are not there at all and you have to define them yourself
The AWS CloudWatch metrics reference helps:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CW_Support_For_AWS.html