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AWS dynamodb metricset

Warning

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.

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

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

metricbeat aws dynamodb overview

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.

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"
    }
}