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Understanding Amazon CloudWatch metrics for Amazon Chime SDK meetings

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Understanding Amazon CloudWatch metrics for Amazon Chime SDK meetings - Amazon Chime SDK
Service metricsAPI usage 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.

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