Aws_cloudwatch_metric_alarm "metric" "stat" no longer accepts percentiles (ie. p95)

Terraform Providers AWS
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Linked Github issue: aws_cloudwatch_metric_alarm "metric" "stat" no longer accepts percentiles (ie. p95) · Issue #19737 · hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws · GitHub

Terraform CLI and Terraform AWS Provider Version

Terraform v0.12.31

  • provider.aws v3.44.0

Affected Resource(s)

  • aws_cloudwatch_metric_alarm
  • specifically metric.stat

Terraform Configuration Files

Please include all Terraform configurations required to reproduce the bug. Bug reports without a functional reproduction may be closed without investigation.

resource "aws_cloudwatch_metric_alarm" "p95" {
  count               = 1
  alarm_name          = format("%s-p95-%s-api-gateway", "env", "xxx")
  alarm_description   = "This metric monitors the xxx service api gateway for the P95 going above a threshold."
  comparison_operator = "GreaterThanOrEqualToThreshold"
  evaluation_periods  = 1
  threshold           = 1
  alarm_actions       = []
  ok_actions          = []

  treat_missing_data = "ignore"

  metric_query {
    id          = "duration"
    label       = "API GW duration (ms)"
    return_data = true

    metric {
      metric_name = "Duration"
      namespace   = "AWS/ApiGateway"
      period      = "60"
      stat        = "p95"
      dimensions  = { ApiName = environment-xxx }
    }
  }

  tags = local.common_tags
}

Expected Behavior

Running terraform plan / terraform apply should deploy infrastructure properly and the “p95” alarm should work with stat = “p95” This was working in v3.43.0 and just recently broke in v3.44.0

Actual Behavior

When running terraform apply on aws provider v3.44.0, we now get this error:

Error: expected metric_query.0.metric.0.stat to be one of [SampleCount Average Sum Minimum Maximum], got p95

         on ../../../cloudwatch_api_gateway.tf line 69, in resource "aws_cloudwatch_metric_alarm" "p95":
         69: resource "aws_cloudwatch_metric_alarm" "p95" {

Steps to Reproduce

  1. terraform apply

Questions

I have seen https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/aws/3.42.0/docs/resources/cloudwatch_metric_alarm#stat

  • I understand that this says only “SampleCount, Average, Sum, Minimum, Maximum” are supported, but “p95” also worked all the way up until v3.44.0
  • Was there are breaking change in v3.44.0 in regards to this?
  • Is this going to be reverted/fixed, or do we need to refactor our code and not be able to use percentiles anymore?