Add cost warning and filtering example to CloudWatch documentation - #1557
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This PR enhances the CloudWatch metrics documentation by adding guidance about potential cost implications and metric filtering.
Specifically, it adds:
💡 Motivation and Context
When CloudWatch metrics integration is enabled, Spring Boot Actuator and Micrometer publish a large number of default metrics.
Without explicit filtering, this may result in unintended CloudWatch costs.
Currently, the documentation does not clearly explain:
This PR addresses that gap by making the cost implications explicit and documenting a recommended way to restrict exported metrics.
While this PR does not change the default behavior, it helps clarify and mitigate the concerns raised in #873 by documenting the cost implications and recommended configuration.
The example code included in this documentation is based on the snippet originally shared by the issue author
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