AWS SQS metrics

Once you’ve integrated with AWS CloudWatch, you have access to metrics for the AWS SQS service.

You can create a pre-built dashboard for this integration when you add the integration to Cloud Observability or from the Dashboard list view.

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

The following table shows the SQS metrics ingested by Cloud Observability.

Metric Name	Metric Data Type	Unit	Description
aws.sqs.number_of_messages_sent_count	cumulative	count	The number of messages sent to the queue.
aws.sqs.number_of_messages_received_count	cumulative	count	The number of messages returned by calls to the `ReceiveMessage` action.
aws.sqs.approximate_age_of_oldest_message_max	gauge	seconds	The approximate age of the oldest non-deleted message in the queue.
aws.sqs.approximate_number_of_messages_visible_count	gauge	count	The number of messages available for consumption.
aws.sqs.approximate_number_of_messages_delayed_count	gauge	count	The number of messages in the queue that are delayed and not available for reading immediately. This can happen when the queue is configured as a delay queue or when a message has been sent with a delay parameter.
aws.sqs.number_of_empty_receives_count	cumulative	count	The number of `ReceiveMessage` API calls that did not return a message.
aws.sqs.sent_message_size_max	cumulative	bytes	The size of the last message received.