title: Setting up cloud watch exporter for prometheus on mesosphere DCOS cluster
body: <p>I have set up cloud watch exporter for Prometheus on my <strong>AWS mesosphere DCOS cluster</strong>. I have '<strong>CloudWatchFullAccess</strong>' policy enabled. But meter, '<code>cloudwatch_exporter_scrape_error</code>' shows non-zero value. I want to know why the scrape is giving error. </p>
  
  <p>Where can I check logs or how to debug this problem?</p>
  
  <p>Also the config file I am using is </p>
  
  <pre><code>{
     "region": "ap-southeast-1",
     "metrics": [
          {"aws_namespace": "AWS/ELB", "aws_metric_name": "HealthyHostCount",
           "aws_dimensions": ["AvailabilityZone", "LoadBalancerName"],
           "aws_dimension_select": {"LoadBalancerName": ["name of my LB"]},
           "aws_statistics": ["Sum"]
          }
        ]
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but I do not any meters in addition to meters - <code>cloudwatch_requests_total</code>,
  <code>cloudwatch_exporter_scrape_duration_seconds</code>, <code>cloudwatch_exporter_scrape_error</code> exposed to Prometheus.</p>
  
  <p>How to get additional meters from cloudwatch_exporter?</p>