Viewing advanced security metrics - Amazon Cognito

Viewing advanced security metrics

Amazon Cognito publishes metrics for advanced security features to your account in Amazon CloudWatch. Amazon Cognito groups the advanced security metrics together by risk level and also by request level.

To view metrics in the CloudWatch console

  1. Open the CloudWatch console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Metrics.

  3. Choose Amazon Cognito.

  4. Choose a group of aggregated metrics, such as By Risk Classification.

  5. The All metrics tab displays all metrics for that choice. You can do the following:

    • To sort the table, use the column heading.

    • To graph a metric, select the check box next to the metric. To select all metrics, select the check box in the heading row of the table.

    • To filter by resource, choose the resource ID, and then choose Add to search.

    • To filter by metric, choose the metric name, and then choose Add to search.

Metric

Description

Metric Dimensions

CompromisedCredentialRisk

Requests where Amazon Cognito detected compromised credentials.

Operation: The type of operation. PasswordChange, SignIn, or SignUp are the only dimensions.

UserPoolId: The identifier of the user pool.

RiskLevel: high (default), medium, or low.

AccountTakeoverRisk

Requests where Amazon Cognito detected account take-over risk.

Operation: The type of operation. PasswordChange, SignIn, or SignUp are the only dimensions.

UserPoolId: The identifier of the user pool.

RiskLevel: high, medium, or low.

OverrideBlock

Requests that Amazon Cognito blocked because of the configuration provided by the developer.

Operation: The type of operation. PasswordChange, SignIn, or SignUp are the only dimensions.

UserPoolId: The identifier of the user pool.

RiskLevel: high, medium, or low.

Risk

Requests that Amazon Cognito marked as risky.

Operation: The type of operation, such as PasswordChange, SignIn, or SignUp.

UserPoolId: The identifier of the user pool.

NoRisk

Requests where Amazon Cognito did not identify any risk.

Operation: The type of operation, such as PasswordChange, SignIn, or SignUp.

UserPoolId: The identifier of the user pool.

Amazon Cognito offers you two predefined groups of metrics for ready analysis in CloudWatch. By Risk Classification identifies the granularity of the risk level for requests that Amazon Cognito identifies as risky. By Request Classification reflects metrics aggregated by request level.

Aggregated Metrics Group

Description

By Risk Classification

Requests that Amazon Cognito identifies as risky.

By Request Classification

Metrics aggregated by request.