Monitor your WorkSpaces Thin Client using CloudWatch metrics

WorkSpaces Thin Client devices and Amazon CloudWatch are integrated, so you can gather and analyze performance metrics emitted by your WorkSpaces Thin Client devices. You can monitor these metrics using the CloudWatch console, the CloudWatch command line interface, or programmatically using the CloudWatch API. CloudWatch also allows you to set alarms when you reach a specified threshold for a metric.

For more information about using CloudWatch and alarms, see the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites. Once a WorkSpaces Thin Client device is registered to an Environment, it will begin to emit device metrics.

WorkSpaces Thin Client metrics

The AWS/WorkSpacesThinClient namespace includes the following metrics.

Metric	Description	Dimensions	Statistics	Units
DeviceSession	The number of ThinClient devices that are either connected to a device session, or that are not in session.	desktopType	Average, Min, Max, Sum, Sample Count	Count
ConnectedDevices	The number of ThinClient devices that are currently online.	n/a	Average, Min, Max, Sum, Sample Count	Count
SoftwareSetVersion	The number of ThinClient devices running a given Software Set version.	softwareSetVersion	Average, Min, Max, Sum, Sample Count	Count
NetworkConnectionEthernet	The number of ThinClient devices that are currently connected via Ethernet.	n/a	Average, Min, Max, Sum, Sample Count	Count
NetworkConnectionWifi	The number of ThinClient devices that are currently connected via WiFi.	n/a	Average, Min, Max, Sum, Sample Count	Count

Dimensions to WorkSpaces Thin Client metrics

Dimension	Description
desktopType	Filters the metric data by the desktop type currently in-session on the device. The device is in-session if a user is logged into a desktop, and if the device is not sleeping. If the device is in-session, the dimension value will be the desktop type used, such as WorkSpaces, WorkSpacesSecureBrowser, or AppStream. If the device is not in-session, the dimension value will be NotInSession.
softwareSetVersion	Filters the metric data by the Software Set version installed on the device. The form of the dimension in X.Y.Z, for example 1.4.2.