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Amazon API Gateway Dimensions and Metrics

The metrics and dimensions that API Gateway sends to Amazon CloudWatch are listed below. For more information, see Monitor API execution with Amazon CloudWatch.

API Gateway Metrics

Amazon API Gateway sends metric data to CloudWatch every minute.

The AWS/ApiGateway namespace includes the following metrics.

Metric	Description
4XXError	The number of client-side errors captured in a specified period. The Sum statistic represents this metric, namely, the total count of the 4XXError errors in the given period. The Average statistic represents the 4XXError error rate, namely, the total count of the 4XXError errors divided by the total number of requests during the period. The denominator corresponds to the Count metric (below). Unit: Count
5XXError	The number of server-side errors captured in a given period. The Sum statistic represents this metric, namely, the total count of the 5XXError errors in the given period. The Average statistic represents the 5XXError error rate, namely, the total count of the 5XXError errors divided by the total number of requests during the period. The denominator corresponds to the Count metric (below). Unit: Count
CacheHitCount	The number of requests served from the API cache in a given period. The Sum statistic represents this metric, namely, the total count of the cache hits in the specified period. The Average statistic represents the cache hit rate, namely, the total count of the cache hits divided by the total number of requests during the period. The denominator corresponds to the Count metric (below). Unit: Count
CacheMissCount	The number of requests served from the back end in a given period, when API caching is enabled. The Sum statistic represents this metric, namely, the total count of the cache misses in the specified period. The Average statistic represents the cache miss rate, namely, the total count of the cache hits divided by the total number of requests during the period. The denominator corresponds to the Count metric (below). Unit: Count
Count	The total number API requests in a given period. The SampleCount statistic represents this metric. Unit: Count
IntegrationLatency	The time between when API Gateway relays a request to the back end and when it receives a response from the back end. Unit: Millisecond
Latency	The time between when API Gateway receives a request from a client and when it returns a response to the client. The latency includes the integration latency and other API Gateway overhead. Unit: Millisecond

Dimensions for Metrics

You can use the dimensions in the following table to filter API Gateway metrics.

Dimension	Description
ApiName	Filters API Gateway metrics for an API of the specified API name.
ApiName, Method, Resource, Stage	Filters API Gateway metrics for an API method of the specified API, stage, resource, and method. API Gateway will not send such metrics unless you have explicitly enabled detailed CloudWatch metrics. You can do this in the console by selecting Enable CloudWatch Metrics under a stage Settings tab. Alternatively, you can call the stage:update action of the API Gateway REST API to update the metricsEnabled property to true. Enabling such metrics will incur additional charges to your account. For pricing information, see Amazon CloudWatch Pricing.
ApiName, Stage	Filters API Gateway metrics for an API stage of the specified API and stage.