Integrating CloudWatch with Amazon Polly - Amazon Polly
Getting CloudWatch Metrics (Console)Getting CloudWatch Metrics (CLI)Amazon Polly MetricsDimensions for Amazon Polly Metrics

Integrating CloudWatch with Amazon Polly

When you interact with Amazon Polly, it sends the following metrics and dimensions to CloudWatch every minute. You can use the following procedures to view the metrics for Amazon Polly.

You can monitor Amazon Polly using CloudWatch, which collects and processes raw data from Amazon Polly into readable, near real-time metrics. These statistics are recorded for a period of two weeks, so that you can access historical information and gain a better perspective on how your web application or service is performing. By default, Amazon Polly metric data is sent to CloudWatch in 1 minute intervals. For more information, see What Is Amazon CloudWatch in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide.

Getting CloudWatch Metrics (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, under the metrics category for Amazon Polly, select a metrics category, and then in the upper pane, scroll down to view the full list of metrics.

Getting CloudWatch Metrics (CLI)

The following code display available metrics for Amazon Polly.

aws cloudwatch list-metrics --namespace "AWS/Polly"

The preceding command returns a list of Amazon Polly metrics similar to the following. The MetricName element identifies what the metric is.

{
    "Metrics": [
        {
            "Namespace": "AWS/Polly", 
            "Dimensions": [
                {
                    "Name": "Operation", 
                    "Value": "SynthesizeSpeech"
                }
            ], 
            "MetricName": "ResponseLatency"
        }, 
        {
            "Namespace": "AWS/Polly", 
            "Dimensions": [
                {
                    "Name": "Operation", 
                    "Value": "SynthesizeSpeech"
                }
            ], 
            "MetricName": "RequestCharacters"
        }

For more information, see GetMetricStatistics in the Amazon CloudWatch API Reference.

Amazon Polly Metrics

Amazon Polly produces the following metrics for each request. These metrics are aggregated and in one minute intervals sent to CloudWatch where they are available.

Metric Description

RequestCharacters

The number of characters in the request. This is billable characters only and does not include SSML tags.

Valid Dimension: Operation

Valid Statistics: Minimum, Maximum, Average, SampleCount, Sum

Unit: Count

ResponseLatency

The latency between when the request was made and the start of the streaming response.

Valid Dimensions: Operation

Valid Statistics: Minimum, Maximum, Average, SampleCount

Unit: milliseconds

2XXCount

HTTP 200 level code returned upon a successful response.

Valid Dimensions: Operation

Valid Statistics: Average, SampleCount, Sum

Unit: Count

4XXCount

HTTP 400 level error code returned upon an error. For each successful response, a zero (0) is emitted.

Valid Dimensions: Operation

Valid Statistics: Average, SampleCount, Sum

Unit: Count

5XXCount

HTTP 500 level error code returned upon an error. For each successful response, a zero (0) is emitted.

Valid Dimensions: Operation

Valid Statistics: Average, SampleCount, Sum

Unit: Count

Dimensions for Amazon Polly Metrics

Amazon Polly metrics use the AWS/Polly namespace and provide metrics for the following dimension:

Dimension Description

Operation

Metrics are grouped by the API method they refer to. Possible values are SynthesizeSpeech, PutLexicon, DescribeVoices, etc.