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View NAT gateway CloudWatch metrics

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View NAT gateway CloudWatch metrics - Amazon Virtual Private Cloud

NAT gateway metrics are sent to CloudWatch at 1-minute intervals. Metrics are grouped first by the service namespace, and then by the possible combinations of dimensions within each namespace. You can view the metrics for your NAT gateways as follows.

To view metrics using the CloudWatch console
  1. Open the CloudWatch console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Metrics, All metrics.

  3. Choose the NATGateway metric namespace.

  4. Choose a metric dimension.

To view metrics using the AWS CLI

At a command prompt, use the following command to list the metrics that are available for the NAT gateway service.

aws cloudwatch list-metrics --namespace "AWS/NATGateway"
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