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AWS DynamoDB Monitoring

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Bleemeo collects metrics for Amazon DynamoDB tables via CloudWatch. Metrics are polled every 1 minute.

Metrics

Section titled “Metrics”
Metric Description
dynamodb_consumed_read_capacity Number of read capacity units consumed per second
dynamodb_read_capacity_perc Read capacity used as a percentage (provisioned mode only)
dynamodb_read_requests Number of read requests per second
dynamodb_read_throttled_requests Number of read requests throttled per second
dynamodb_consumed_write_capacity Number of write capacity units consumed per second
dynamodb_write_capacity_perc Write capacity used as a percentage (provisioned mode only)
dynamodb_write_requests Number of write requests per second
dynamodb_write_throttled_requests Number of write requests throttled per second

IAM Permissions

Section titled “IAM Permissions”
{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics",
                "ec2:DescribeRegions",
                "dynamodb:ListTables",
                "dynamodb:DescribeTable"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

Estimated AWS Cost

Section titled “Estimated AWS Cost”

$1.76/month per table (4 CloudWatch API calls per minute).

See Also

Section titled “See Also”