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# SQS

Stable

# CloudWatch Configuration

When a resource is monitored it is going to be using these CloudWatch configurations to identify the metric.

namespace dimension metrics
AWS/SQS QueueName Available CloudWatch Metrics

# Service Defaults

When an alarm is created it will first review the service defaults to populate the CloudWatch alarm properties. After the service defaults, it will then apply the specific metric defaults if they are provided.

Alarm Property Default Value
EvaluationPeriods 6
Statistic Sum
Period 3600 1 Hour

# Dashboard Widgets

Each queue that is monitored will be added to a dashboard with the default widgets.

# Default Alarm Metrics

Unless there is a tag override, each queue that is monitored will be bootstrapped with the default alarm metrics.

  • ApproximateAgeOfOldestMessage
  • NumberOfMessagesSent

# Supported Metrics

# NumberOfMessagesSent

# ApproximateAgeOfOldestMessage

# ApproximateNumberOfMessagesVisible

# ApproximateNumberOfMessagesNotVisible