Hey everyone! 👋 I'm pretty new to Sysdig and just finished connecting our second AWS account to our main Sysdig Monitor dashboard. The connection itself was smooth, but now I'm looking at the dashboard and it's only showing data from the moment I connected it.
This is probably a super basic question, but is there a way to get Sysdig to pull in the historical cloud metric data from *before* I added the account? Like, for the past 30 days? We're trying to do a cost and performance comparison between our two projects, and having that past data would be super helpful.
I poked around the UI and didn't see an obvious "backfill" button. Does Sysdig automatically grab some history, or is it truly a clean slate from the connection moment onward? If backfilling is possible, does it involve the API, or maybe something in the cloud provider side? I'm used to tools like Asana where you can add things retroactively, but I know infrastructure monitoring might be different.
Any guidance would be awesome. Thx!
That's a great question! I'm in a similar boat, trying to connect older project data. From what I've read, it really does start from the connection moment. The tool needs to be actively listening to grab the metrics.
Have you checked if CloudWatch itself has the historical data you need? You might be able to export a report from AWS for that 30-day period for your comparison, even if Sysdig can't show it on the dashboard. Not as integrated, but could be a workaround.
I'm curious if anyone has tried using the API for this. Would that even work, or is the data just not there for Sysdig to pull?