CloudWatch Metric Guide

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Amazon DynamoDB CloudWatch AlarmsThresholds, failures, and debugging guides

2 CloudWatch metrics covered for Amazon DynamoDB. Each guide includes the recommended alarm threshold, common root causes, and how ConvOps automatically diagnoses it when it fires.

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Amazon DynamoDB metrics

AWS/DynamoDB

ConsumedReadCapacityUnits

Count

ConsumedReadCapacityUnits reports the number of read capacity units consumed over the specified time period for a DynamoDB table or global secondary index.

Threshold

> 80% of provisioned read capacity (for provisioned mode tables)

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ThrottledRequests

Count

ThrottledRequests counts requests to DynamoDB that were throttled because the request rate exceeded the provisioned throughput limits for the table or index.

Threshold

> 0 for provisioned capacity tables; > 0 as a cost and latency alert for on-demand tables

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