AWS dynamodb metricsetedit

This functionality is in beta and is subject to change. The design and code is less mature than official GA features and is being provided as-is with no warranties. Beta features are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features.

The dynamodb metricset of aws module allows you to monitor your AWS DynamoDB database. dynamodb metricset fetches a set of values from Amazon DynamoDB Metrics. For all other DynamoDB metrics, the aggregation granularity is five minutes.

Configuration exampleedit

- module: aws
  period: 300s
  metricsets:
    - dynamodb
  # This module uses the aws cloudwatch metricset, all
  # the options for this metricset are also available here.

Dashboardedit

The aws dynamodb metricset comes with a predefined dashboard. For example:

metricbeat aws dynamodb overview

Metricsedit

Please see more details for each metric in Amazon DynamoDB Metrics.

Metric Name

Statistic Method

SuccessfulRequestLatency

Average

OnlineIndexPercentageProgress

Average

ProvisionedWriteCapacityUnits

Average

ProvisionedReadCapacityUnits

Average

ConsumedReadCapacityUnits

Average

ConsumedWriteCapacityUnits

Average

ReplicationLatency

Average

TransactionConflict

Average

AccountProvisionedReadCapacityUtilization

Average

AccountProvisionedWriteCapacityUtilization

Average

SystemErrors

Sum

ConsumedReadCapacityUnits

Sum

ConsumedWriteCapacityUnits

Sum

ConditionalCheckFailedRequests

Sum

PendingReplicationCount

Sum

TransactionConflict

Sum

ReadThrottleEvents

Sum

ThrottledRequests

Sum

WriteThrottleEvents

Sum

SuccessfulRequestLatency

Maximum

ReplicationLatency

Maximum

AccountMaxReads

Maximum

AccountMaxTableLevelReads

Maximum

AccountMaxTableLevelWrites

Maximum

AccountMaxWrites

Maximum

MaxProvisionedTableReadCapacityUtilization

Maximum

MaxProvisionedTableWriteCapacityUtilization

Maximum

This is a default metricset. If the host module is unconfigured, this metricset is enabled by default.

Fieldsedit

For a description of each field in the metricset, see the exported fields section.

Here is an example document generated by this metricset:

{
    "@timestamp": "2020-01-10T11:01:22.612Z",
    "@metadata": {
        "beat": "metricbeat",
        "type": "_doc",
        "version": "8.0.0"
    },
    "host": {
        "id": "883134FF-0EC4-5E1B-9F9E-FD06FB681D84",
        "hostname": "vm1",
        "architecture": "x86_64",
        "name": "vm1",
        "os": {
            "family": "darwin",
            "name": "Mac OS X",
            "kernel": "18.7.0",
            "build": "18G95",
            "platform": "darwin",
            "version": "10.14.6"
        }
    },
    "agent": {
        "hostname": "vm1",
        "id": "fbaf40e4-c9f2-4d9f-840f-b3d8de51b42c",
        "version": "8.0.0",
        "type": "metricbeat",
        "ephemeral_id": "ccb69319-4fbd-4881-996a-4c710322da8b"
    },
    "cloud": {
        "region": "eu-central-1",
        "account": {
            "name": "elastic-beats",
            "id": "428152502467"
        },
        "provider": "aws"
    },
    "aws": {
        "dimensions": {
            "TableName": "TryDaxTable",
            "Operation": "Query"
        },
        "dynamodb": {
            "metrics": {
                "SuccessfulRequestLatency": {
                    "avg": 1.6592021822660081,
                    "max": 2.883089
                },
                "ThrottledRequests": {
                    "sum": 112
                }
            }
        },
        "cloudwatch": {
            "namespace": "AWS/DynamoDB"
        }
    },
    "event": {
        "duration": 1447079629,
        "dataset": "aws.dynamodb",
        "module": "aws"
    },
    "metricset": {
        "name": "dynamodb",
        "period": 60000
    },
    "service": {
        "type": "aws"
    },
    "ecs": {
        "version": "1.2.0"
    }
}