CloudWatch Monitoring for DynamoDB

The following technologies are available for logging and monitoring AWS services:

• CloudWatch alarms
• CloudWatch logs
• CloudWatch events
• Manual monitoring

We can check the health of our application by manually monitoring the DynamoDB homepage and the CloudWatch dashboard. We can even create custom dashboards for our application on services.

Lab tasks

• Create a DynamoDB table.
• Create an alarm.
• Confirm SNS subscription.
• Trigger the alarm.
• Clean up.

Architecture diagram

The following is the high-level architecture diagram of how to monitor DynamoDB using cloudwatch.