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title: Collect data from multiple AWS accounts
source: https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/infrastructure/amazon-integrations/aws-integration-for-metrics/aws-multi-account
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The New Relic UI gives you a complete view of your AWS system, making monitoring much easier. You can view metrics and monitor multiple AWS accounts that send metrics to a single account linked to New Relic. For this feature to work, you must send metrics from different AWS accounts that you want to monitor to a single AWS account. You can then monitor those different AWS accounts with the metrics enriched with the appropriate tags and metadata. You can easily track [performance metrics](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/data-apis/understand-data/new-relic-data-types/) while reducing overall infrastructure [costs](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/accounts/accounts-billing/new-relic-one-pricing-billing/data-ingest-billing/), which means you'll save time and money.

Having a single view of all your AWS accounts helps you:

-   Reduce the number of friction points by setting up a single observe account for AWS.

-   Reduce overall infrastructure costs by reducing the number of streams sending metrics to observability solutions.

-   Get tagged and metadata-enriched metrics from your AWS accounts.

## Before you start [#before-start]

Check the following:

-   You've configured [Amazon CloudWatch](https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/) to send metrics to a single AWS account that must be connected to New Relic.

-   You're using [AWS Resource Groups Tagging API Reference](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/resourcegroupstagging/latest/APIReference/overview.html) to collect tags.

-   You're using AWS config to collect metadata.

-   All IAM roles have access to fetch tags from individual accounts.

-   You use the [IAM role](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_roles.html) used in the AWS observe account on all AWS accounts to monitor.

-   You have [CloudWatch cross-account observability](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch-Unified-Cross-Account.html) properly set up. See [Set up AWS cross-account access](#setting-up-aws-cross-account-access).

## Get started [#get-started]

Follow these steps to set up cross-account observability and start viewing your multi-account AWS data in New Relic.

## Set up AWS cross-account access [#setting-up-aws-cross-account-access]

You need access to the AWS Management Console for both your monitoring and source accounts. Here's what each account type means:

-   **Source AWS account(s):** Individual AWS accounts that generate observability data for their resources. Source accounts share their observability data with the monitoring account.
-   **Monitoring AWS account:** A central AWS account that can view and interact with observability data generated from source accounts. It collects telemetry from these accounts and pushes it to New Relic.

For complete setup instructions, see AWS documentation on [CloudWatch cross-account observability](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch-Unified-Cross-Account.html).

While configuring cross-account access, follow these best practices:

-   **Use a dedicated monitoring account:** AWS recommends creating a dedicated new AWS account as your monitoring account.
-   **Select metrics for sharing:** When linking source accounts, make sure you select **Metrics** as the telemetry type to share. You can optionally filter which metric namespaces to include.
-   **One sink per region:** Each account can have one sink per region. If you need to monitor multiple regions, set up a sink for each region.
-   **Enable cross-account metrics in your stream:** After linking your accounts, verify that your CloudWatch metric stream has **Include source account metrics** enabled. You can find this setting in your metric stream configuration.
-   **Link multiple source accounts:** You can link source accounts individually or use AWS CloudFormation StackSets to link accounts across your AWS Organization.

## Connect your AWS observe account to New Relic [#connect-aws-account]

To start receiving Amazon data with New Relic AWS integrations, connect your AWS monitoring account to New Relic. This is the account that receives metrics from all your other AWS accounts.

You can integrate using one of these methods:

-   [Integrate via CloudFormation and CloudWatch metric stream](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/infrastructure/amazon-integrations/aws-integration-for-metrics/via-cloudformation-cwms) (recommended)
-   [Integrate manually from AWS console](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/infrastructure/amazon-integrations/aws-integration-for-metrics/manual)
-   [Integrate with Terraform](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/infrastructure/amazon-integrations/aws-integration-for-metrics/terraform)

## Explore your AWS data [#explore-data]

To explore your AWS data:

1.  Go to **[one.newrelic.com](https://one.newrelic.com/all-capabilities) > Infrastructure**.
2.  Select **AWS**.
3.  To view data for a specific integration, click **Explore data** next to it.

This opens the [**Data explorer**](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/query-your-data/explore-query-data/browse-data/introduction-data-explorer/) where you can browse available metrics, facet, and filter by associated dimensions. You can also use the [query builder](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/telemetry-data-platform/get-data/apis/query-metric-data-type/) tab.

## Check the status of your account [#account-status]

You can check the status of your account by clicking the **See account status dashboard** button.

![See the status of your account](https://docs.newrelic.com/images/infrastructure_screenshot-crop_aws-see-account-status-dashboard.webp "See the status of your account")

Go to **[one.newrelic.com](https://one.newrelic.com/all-capabilities) > Infrastructure**. Under the **Integrations** section, click **AWS**. Then, click the **See account status dashboard** button.

Here's an example of the account status dashboard:

![See the status of your account](https://docs.newrelic.com/images/infrastructure_screenshot-crop_aws-account-status-dashboard.webp "See the status of your account")

## Related topics [#related-topics]

[AWS integrations metrics](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/infrastructure/amazon-integrations/manage-aws-data/aws-integrations-metrics/)

Explore and understand metrics from CloudWatch Metric Stream.

[Introduction to AWS integrations](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/infrastructure/amazon-integrations/get-started/introduction-aws-integrations/)

Get an overview of AWS integrations and their capabilities.

[Data explorer](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/query-your-data/explore-query-data/browse-data/introduction-data-explorer/)

Browse and visualize your AWS metrics data.

[Polling intervals for AWS integrations](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/infrastructure/amazon-integrations/manage-aws-data/polling-intervals-aws-integrations/)

Understand data collection frequency for AWS integrations.