# CloudWatch Data Source -  Native Plugin

Grafana ships with **built in** support for CloudWatch. You just have to add it as a data source and you will be ready to build dashboards for your CloudWatch metrics.

Read more about it here:

[https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/features/datasources/cloudwatch/](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/features/datasources/cloudwatch/)