MetricMetadata
A single metric observed on a context graph node.
Contents
- attributes
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Per-metric qualifying attributes the console uses to query this metric's telemetry. These are the RAW, store-matching values keyed by their OTel names ("service.name", "service.namespace", "cloud.provider", "cloud.account.id", "cloud.region", "instrumentation_scope") — deliberately NOT the node's normalized/merged identity, so the query selectors match the emitted series. A merged node can carry different values per metric, which is why they live here rather than on the node.
Type: String to string map
Map Entries: Minimum number of 0 items. Maximum number of 50 items.
Required: No
- metricType
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OTel metric kind: "gauge", "sum", "histogram", "exponential_histogram", or "summary" (CloudWatch-vended metrics carry the same kinds). Absent when the producer did not report one.
Type: String
Required: No
- name
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The metric name as emitted, such as "Duration".
Type: String
Required: No
- namespace
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DEPRECATED: read attributes["service.namespace"] instead. Retained (deprecated) for backward compatibility with existing consumers; will be removed once they migrate. The logical service grouping the metric belongs to.
Type: String
Required: No
- preferredStat
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The statistic to chart or alarm on, such as "p99" or "Sum". Free-form and frequently absent.
Type: String
Required: No
- semantics
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What the metric means and the unit it is reported in.
Type: MetricSemantics object
Required: No
See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
