Estimate read and write capacity consumption with Amazon CloudWatch in Amazon Keyspaces - Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra)

Estimate read and write capacity consumption with Amazon CloudWatch in Amazon Keyspaces

To estimate and monitor read and write capacity consumption, you can use a CloudWatch dashboard. For more information about available metrics for Amazon Keyspaces, see Amazon Keyspaces metrics and dimensions.

To monitor read and write capacity units consumed by a specific statement with CloudWatch, you can follow these steps.

  1. Create a new table with sample data

  2. Configure a Amazon Keyspaces CloudWatch dashboard for the table. To get started, you can use a dashboard template available on Github.

  3. Run the CQL statement, for example using the ALLOW FILTERING option, and check the read capacity units consumed for the full table scan in the dashboard.