Amazon CloudWatch metrics

When you use the Amazon Chime SDK, it sends service and usage metrics to CloudWatch. The metrics enable you to use CloudWatch graphs and dashboards to monitor how you consume Amazon Chime SDK services. The metrics capture data for each API that you call.

The following sections list and describe the metrics.

Service metrics

The Amazon Chime SDK publishes to the following service metrics to the AWS/ChimeSDK namespace:

Metric	Unit	Description
AttendeeAuthorizationSuccess	Count	Total count of successful authorization attempts. Success means that an attendee was allowed to join the meeting.
AttendeeAuthorizationError	Count	Total count of authorization failures, indicates that the attendee couldn't join the meeting.
AttendeeAudioDrops	Count	Total count of audio drops.
AttendeeContentDrops	Count	Total count of content share drops.
MeetingSQSNotificationErrors	Count	Total count of SQS Notification errors.
MeetingSNSNotificationErrors	Count	Total count of SNS Notification errors.

API usage metrics

The API usage metrics correspond to the AWS service quotas. You can configure alarms that alert you when your usage approaches a service quota. For more information about CloudWatch integration with service quotas, see AWS usage metrics in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide.

The Amazon Chime SDK publishes the following API metrics in the AWS/Usage namespace, with the ChimeSDK service name.

Metric	Description
CallCount	The total number of calls made to an API in the Amazon Chime SDK. SUM represents the total number of calls to the API during the specified period.
ErrorCount	The total number of errors thrown by an API in the Amazon Chime SDK. SUM represents the total number of calls to the API during the specified period.
ThrottleCount	The total number of throttling errors thrown by an API in the Amazon Chime SDK. SUM which represents the total number of calls to the API during the specified period.

The Amazon Chime SDK publishes usage metrics to the AWS/Usage namespace with the following dimensions:

Dimension	Description
Service	The name of the AWS service containing the resource. For Amazon Chime SDK usage metrics, the value for this dimension is ChimeSDK.
Type	The type of entity being reported. The only valid value for Amazon Chime SDK usage metrics is API.
Resource	The type of resource reporting the metric. For Amazon Chime SDK usage metrics, the value for this dimension is the name of the API.
Class	The class of resource being tracked. The only valid value for Amazon Chime SDK metrics is None.