Monitoring Amazon Kinesis Data Streams

You can monitor your data streams in Amazon Kinesis Data Streams using the following features:

• CloudWatch metrics— Kinesis Data Streams sends Amazon CloudWatch custom metrics with detailed monitoring for each stream.

• Kinesis Agent— The Kinesis Agent publishes custom CloudWatch metrics to help assess if the agent is working as expected.

• API logging— Kinesis Data Streams uses AWS CloudTrail to log API calls and store the data in an Amazon S3 bucket.

• Kinesis Client Library— Kinesis Client Library (KCL) provides metrics per shard, worker, and KCL application.

• Kinesis Producer Library— Kinesis Producer Library (KPL) provides metrics per shard, worker, and KPL application.

For more information about common monitoring issues, questions, and troubleshooting, see the following:

• Which metrics should I use to monitor and troubleshoot Kinesis Data Streams issues?

• Why does the IteratorAgeMilliseconds value in Kinesis Data Streams keep increasing?