Introduced in Metricbeat 7.2, the CloudWatch metricset is part of the AWS module designed to monitor various AWS services by collecting metrics from Amazon CloudWatch, which provides insights into application performance, utilization, and health. The CloudWatch metricset simplifies the process by allowing users to specify statistic methods and enable tag collections, offering greater flexibility in monitoring configurations. Users must configure AWS credentials, create a customized IAM policy, and enable the AWS module in Metricbeat to utilize these functionalities. The introduction of Metricbeat light modules in version 7.4, such as the elb metricset for AWS Elastic Load Balancing, allows for easier creation of new metricsets by leveraging existing configurations without additional coding. These enhancements enable better monitoring capabilities and encourage the development of custom metricsets for specific AWS services, ultimately allowing users to monitor multiple AWS services seamlessly and ship metrics to Elasticsearch for analysis.