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CloudWatch Custom Metrics

AWS CloudWatch Custom metricsΒΆ

  • Possibility to define and send your own custom metrics to CloudWatch
  • Ability to use dimensions (attributes) to segment metrics
    • Instance.id
    • Environment.name
  • Metric resolution
    • Standard: 1 minute
    • High Resolution: up to 1 second (storageResolution API parameter) - higher cost
  • Use API call PutMetricData
  • Use exponential back off in case of throttle errors