AWS Elastic Transcoder metrics

Once you’ve integrated with AWS CloudWatch, you have access to metrics from AWS Elastic Transcoder, which can convert Amazon S3 stored media files into other relevant formats.

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To verify metrics are reporting, search for the metrics in the Metric details section of the Settings page.

The following table shows the Elastic Transcoder metrics ingested by Cloud Observability.

Metric Name	Unit	Description
aws.elastictranscoder.billed_hd_output	seconds	Billable seconds of HD output for the pipeline.
aws.elastictranscoder.billed_sd_output	seconds	Billable seconds of SD output for the pipeline.
aws.elastictranscoder.billed_audio_output	seconds	Billable seconds of audio output for the pipeline.
aws.elastictranscoder.jobs_completed	count	Jobs completed by the pipeline.
aws.elastictranscoder.jobs_errored	count	The number of errors due to bad inputs.
aws.elastictranscoder.outputs_per_job	count	The number of outputs produced for a job.
aws.elastictranscoder.standby_time	seconds	The number of seconds before Elastic Transcoder began a job.
aws.elastictranscoder.errors	count	The number of errors due to bad operation parameters, like a request for a job status that omits the job ID.
aws.elastictranscoder.throttles	count	The number of times Elastic Transcoder voluntarily throttled an operation.

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Updated Dec 6, 2022