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Activate Enhanced Metrics on Datadog Forwarder Lambda function

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
aws, python, yaml

Research direction

Start by inspecting the AWS CloudFormation forwarder template linked in the issue and locate the environment variable controlling enhanced_metrics. Confirm how the template is generated or maintained in this repository, then verify that a deployed forwarder can enable enhanced metrics and expose memory usage in Datadog.

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Description

Hi everyone.

First of all, thanks for your amazing work. Datadog is a powerful tool, and I'm amazed about the different features your teams are delivering.

Describe what happened:
I would like to see the memory used by the datadog forwarder function, but I'm not able to active enhanced_metrics on this function.
It's created by the cloudformation template you're providing here: https://datadog-cloudformation-template.s3.amazonaws.com/aws/forwarder/3.92.0.yaml

In this template, the environment variable used to activate enhanced_metrics is having false as a default value.

Describe what you expected:
I'm expected to be able to activate enhanced_metrics on this function.

Steps to reproduce the issue:
Install the forwarder using the cloudformation template, and check on datadog if you're able to see enhanced_metrics for this lambda.

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