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title: "Verify data collection | Grafana Labs"
description: "Learn how to verify data is collected and being sent to Grafana Cloud."
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# Verify data collection

In this milestone, you’ll verify that data is collected and sent to Grafana Cloud. After you create your CloudWatch metrics scrape job, you can check that data is successfully getting sent from your Amazon account to Grafana Cloud.

1. In Grafana Cloud, click **Observability > Cloud provider > AWS** in the main menu.
2. Click the **Services** tab.
3. Find your scrape job listed in the **Job name** column.
   
   If data is getting sent to Grafana Cloud, the service’s status is **Sending data**.
4. Hover your mouse over the status to see the date data was last sent from your specific scrape job.

Data is successfully flowing from your Amazon account to Grafana Cloud.

In your next milestone, you’ll explore the AWS service data collected through your scrape jobs using Grafana built-in dashboards and query tools.

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### Troubleshooting

Explore the following troubleshooting topics if you need help:

- [Check scrape job status](/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-infrastructure/monitor-cloud-provider/aws/cloudwatch-metrics/config-cw-metric-scrape/#check-scrape-job-status)
- [Metrics continue to appear for terminated or deleted AWS resources](/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-infrastructure/monitor-cloud-provider/aws/cloudwatch-metrics/reference/troubleshoot/#metrics-continue-to-appear-for-terminated-or-deleted-aws-resources)