title: Springboot with Spring-cloud-aws and cloudwatch metrics
body: <p>I would like to start using metrics in my Springboot app and I would also like to publish them my amazon cloudwatch</p>
  
  <p>I know that with Springboot we can activate spring-actuator that provides in memory metrics and published them to the /metrics endpoint.</p>
  
  <p>I stumbled across Spring-cloud that seems to have some lib to periodically publish these metrics to Cloudwatch, however I have no clue how to set them up? There is absolutely 0 examples of how to use it.</p>
  
  <p>Anyone could explain what are the step to enable the metric to be sent to cloudwatch?</p>