Publish custom metric data to CloudWatch - AWS SDK for Java 2.x
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Publish custom metric data to CloudWatch

A number of AWS services publish their own metrics in namespaces beginning with " AWS " You can also publish custom metric data using your own namespace (as long as it doesn’t begin with " AWS ").

Publish custom metric data

To publish your own metric data, call the CloudWatchClient’s putMetricData method with a PutMetricDataRequest. The PutMetricDataRequest must include the custom namespace to use for the data, and information about the data point itself in a MetricDatum object.

Note

You cannot specify a namespace that begins with " AWS ". Namespaces that begin with " AWS " are reserved for use by Amazon Web Services products.

Imports 

import software.amazon.awssdk.regions.Region;
import software.amazon.awssdk.services.cloudwatch.CloudWatchClient;
import software.amazon.awssdk.services.cloudwatch.model.Dimension;
import software.amazon.awssdk.services.cloudwatch.model.MetricDatum;
import software.amazon.awssdk.services.cloudwatch.model.StandardUnit;
import software.amazon.awssdk.services.cloudwatch.model.PutMetricDataRequest;
import software.amazon.awssdk.services.cloudwatch.model.CloudWatchException;
import java.time.Instant;
import java.time.ZoneOffset;
import java.time.ZonedDateTime;
import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;

Code 

    public static void putMetData(CloudWatchClient cw, Double dataPoint ) {

        try {
            Dimension dimension = Dimension.builder()
                    .name("UNIQUE_PAGES")
                    .value("URLS")
                    .build();

            // Set an Instant object
            String time = ZonedDateTime.now( ZoneOffset.UTC ).format( DateTimeFormatter.ISO_INSTANT );
            Instant instant = Instant.parse(time);

            MetricDatum datum = MetricDatum.builder()
                .metricName("PAGES_VISITED")
                .unit(StandardUnit.NONE)
                .value(dataPoint)
                .timestamp(instant)
                .dimensions(dimension).build();

            PutMetricDataRequest request = PutMetricDataRequest.builder()
                .namespace("SITE/TRAFFIC")
                .metricData(datum).build();

            cw.putMetricData(request);

        } catch (CloudWatchException e) {
            System.err.println(e.awsErrorDetails().errorMessage());
            System.exit(1);
        }
        System.out.printf("Successfully put data point %f", dataPoint);
     }

See the complete example on GitHub.

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