Once you’ve integrated with AWS CloudWatch, you have access to metrics from AWS CloudWatchSynthetics, which is to build customizable scripts called “canaries” to monitor your endpoints and APIs on a regular basis.
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To verify metrics are reporting, search for the metrics on the Metric details page in Settings.
The following table shows the CloudWatchSynthetics metrics ingested by Cloud Observability.
| Metric Name | Unit | Description |
|---|---|---|
| aws.cloudwatchsynthetics.success_percent | percent | The percentage of runs made by this canary that are successful and contain no failures. |
| aws.cloudwatchsynthetics.duration | milliseconds | The millisecond duration of the canary run. |
| aws.cloudwatchsynthetics.2xx | count | The proportion of the canary's network requests that were successful as shown by response codes 200 to 299. This metric is reported for both UI and API canaries running syn-nodejs-2.0 or later and runtime syn-nodejs-2.2 or later. |
| aws.cloudwatchsynthetics.4xx | count | The proportion of network requests made by the canary that resulted in error response codes between 400 and 499. This metric is reported for both UI and API canaries running syn-nodejs-2.0 or later and runtime syn-nodejs-2.2 or later. |
| aws.cloudwatchsynthetics.5xx | count | How many of the canary's network requests returned response codes between 500 and 599 that were Faults? This statistic pertains to both UI and API canaries running syn-nodejs-2.0 or later and using the runtime version syn-nodejs-2.2 or later. |
| aws.cloudwatchsynthetics.failed | count | The number of canary runs that failed to finish. These mistakes are specifically related to the canary. |
| aws.cloudwatchsynthetics.failed_requests | count | The total number of HTTP requests sent by the canary and not answered by the target website. |
| aws.cloudwatchsynthetics.visual_monitoring_success_percent | percent | The percentage of visual comparisons made during a test run that accurately matched the test screenshots. |
| aws.cloudwatchsynthetics.visual_monitoring_total_comparisons | count | The total number of visual comparisons performed during a canary run. |
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Updated Dec 2, 2022