Step 5: Configure monitoring with CloudWatch - Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra)

Step 5: Configure monitoring with CloudWatch

This step shows you how to use Amazon CloudWatch to monitor the VPC endpoint connection to Amazon Keyspaces.

AWS PrivateLink publishes data points to CloudWatch about your interface endpoints. You can use metrics to verify that your system is performing as expected. The AWS/PrivateLinkEndpoints namespace in CloudWatch includes the metrics for interface endpoints. For more information, see CloudWatch metrics for AWS PrivateLink in the AWS PrivateLink Guide.

To create a CloudWatch dashboard with VPC endpoint metrics

  1. Open the CloudWatch console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Dashboards. Then choose Create dashboard. Enter a name for the dashboard and choose Create.

  3. Under Add widget, choose Number.

  4. Under Metrics, choose AWS/PrivateLinkEndpoints.

  5. Choose Endpoint Type, Service Name, VPC Endpoint ID, VPC ID.

  6. Select the metrics ActiveConnections and NewConnections, and choose Create Widget.

  7. Save the dashboard.

The ActiveConnections metric is defined as the number of concurrent active connections that the endpoint received during the last one-minute period. The NewConnections metric is defined as the number of new connections that were established through the endpoint during the last one-minute period.

For more information about creating dashboards, see Create dashboard in the CloudWatch User Guide.