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AWS sns metricset

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AWS sns metricset

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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 sns metricset of aws module allows you to monitor your AWS SNS topic. sns metricset fetches a set of values from Amazon SNS Metrics. CloudWatch metrics for Amazon SNS topics are automatically collected and pushed to CloudWatch every five minutes.

AWS Permissions

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Some specific AWS permissions are required for IAM user to collect AWS SNS metrics.

cloudwatch:GetMetricData
cloudwatch:ListMetrics
ec2:DescribeRegions
sns:ListTopics
sts:GetCallerIdentity
iam:ListAccountAliases

Dashboard

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

Configuration example

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

Metrics

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Please see more details for each metric in CloudWatch SNS Metrics.

Metric Name	Statistic Method
NumberOfMessagesPublished	Sum
NumberOfNotificationsDelivered	Sum
NumberOfNotificationsFailed	Sum
NumberOfNotificationsFilteredOut	Sum
NumberOfNotificationsFilteredOut-InvalidAttributes	Sum
NumberOfNotificationsFilteredOut-NoMessageAttributes	Sum
NumberOfNotificationsRedrivenToDlq	Sum
NumberOfNotificationsFailedToRedriveToDlq	Sum
PublishSize	Average
SMSMonthToDateSpentUSD	Sum
SMSSuccessRate	Average

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

Fields

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

Here is an example document generated by this metricset:

{
    "@timestamp": "2017-10-12T08:05:34.853Z",
    "aws": {
        "cloudwatch": {
            "namespace": "AWS/SNS"
        },
        "dimensions": {
            "TopicName": "test-sns-ks"
        },
        "sns": {
            "metrics": {
                "NumberOfMessagesPublished": {
                    "sum": 1
                },
                "NumberOfNotificationsFailed": {
                    "sum": 1
                },
                "PublishSize": {
                    "avg": 5
                }
            }
        },
        "tags": {
            "created-by": "ks"
        }
    },
    "cloud": {
        "account": {
            "id": "428152502467",
            "name": "elastic-beats"
        },
        "provider": "aws",
        "region": "us-east-1"
    },
    "event": {
        "dataset": "aws.sns",
        "duration": 115000,
        "module": "aws"
    },
    "metricset": {
        "name": "sns",
        "period": 10000
    },
    "service": {
        "type": "aws"
    }
}

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