Amazon SNS and Amazon CloudWatch are both integrated. Every SNS topic publishes standard metrics and dimensions in a CloudWatch. CloudWatch metrics for each SNS topic can be viewed by performing the following steps:
- Go to the CloudWatch dashboard with the IAM user who has sufficient privileges. Click Metrics, as shown in Figure 13.36:
Figure 13.36: CloudWatch Metrics dashboard
- Select SNS to explore all metrics, as shown in Figure 13.37:
Figure 13.37: CloudWatch Metrics dashboard
- Click Topic Metrics to explore the SNS topic metrics, as shown in Figure 13.38:
Figure 13.38: CloudWatch Metrics dashboard
- Select the appropriate metric from the lower-pane to see the activity graph on the upper-pane, as shown in Figure 13.39:
Figure 13.39: CloudWatch Metrics dashboard
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