Viewing Metrics and Dimensions - Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for SQL Applications Developer Guide

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Viewing Metrics and Dimensions

When your application processes data streams, sends the following metrics and dimensions to CloudWatch. You can use the following procedures to view the metrics for .

On the console, metrics are grouped first by service namespace, and then by the dimension combinations within each namespace.

To view metrics using the CloudWatch console
  1. Open the CloudWatch console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Metrics.

  3. In the CloudWatch Metrics by Category pane for , choose a metrics category.

  4. In the upper pane, scroll to view the full list of metrics.

To view metrics using the AWS CLI
  • At a command prompt, use the following command.

    aws cloudwatch list-metrics --namespace "AWS/KinesisAnalytics" --region region

metrics are collected at the following levels:

  • Application

  • Input stream

  • Output stream