The processor helps ingest AWS Cloudwatch Metrics streams data in JSON format in to Splunk via kinesis firehose delivery streams by properly transforming data to Splunk specific sourcetype formats.

NOTE: If source format is set to OTEL (v0.7) the function does not perform any Splunk specific sourcetype transformations. It simply converts the protobuf data into JSON and sends it to Splunk HEC endpoint.

ENV var SPLUNK_CLOUDWATCH_SOURCETYPE can be set to either aws:cloudwatch if events are being sent to a Splunk events index or aws:cloudwatch:metric if events are being sent to a Splunk metric index.

ENV var METRICS_OUTPUT_FORMAT can be set to either json or otel based on the output format set in the stream.