List CloudWatch metrics using an Amazon SDK
The following code examples show how to list the metadata for Amazon CloudWatch metrics. To get data for a metric, use the GetMetricData or GetMetricStatistics actions.
Action examples are code excerpts from larger programs and must be run in context. You can see this action in context in the following code examples:
- .NET
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- Amazon SDK for .NET
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There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the Amazon Code Examples Repository
. /// <summary> /// List metrics available, optionally within a namespace. /// </summary> /// <param name="metricNamespace">Optional CloudWatch namespace to use when listing metrics.</param> /// <param name="filter">Optional dimension filter.</param> /// <param name="metricName">Optional metric name filter.</param> /// <returns>The list of metrics.</returns> public async Task<List<Metric>> ListMetrics(string? metricNamespace = null, DimensionFilter? filter = null, string? metricName = null) { var results = new List<Metric>(); var paginateMetrics = _amazonCloudWatch.Paginators.ListMetrics( new ListMetricsRequest { Namespace = metricNamespace, Dimensions = filter != null ? new List<DimensionFilter> { filter } : null, MetricName = metricName }); // Get the entire list using the paginator. await foreach (var metric in paginateMetrics.Metrics) { results.Add(metric); } return results; }
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For API details, see ListMetrics in Amazon SDK for .NET API Reference.
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- C++
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- SDK for C++
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There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the Amazon Code Examples Repository
. Include the required files.
#include <aws/core/Aws.h> #include <aws/monitoring/CloudWatchClient.h> #include <aws/monitoring/model/ListMetricsRequest.h> #include <aws/monitoring/model/ListMetricsResult.h> #include <iomanip> #include <iostream>
List the metrics.
Aws::CloudWatch::CloudWatchClient cw; Aws::CloudWatch::Model::ListMetricsRequest request; if (argc > 1) { request.SetMetricName(argv[1]); } if (argc > 2) { request.SetNamespace(argv[2]); } bool done = false; bool header = false; while (!done) { auto outcome = cw.ListMetrics(request); if (!outcome.IsSuccess()) { std::cout << "Failed to list CloudWatch metrics:" << outcome.GetError().GetMessage() << std::endl; break; } if (!header) { std::cout << std::left << std::setw(48) << "MetricName" << std::setw(32) << "Namespace" << "DimensionNameValuePairs" << std::endl; header = true; } const auto &metrics = outcome.GetResult().GetMetrics(); for (const auto &metric : metrics) { std::cout << std::left << std::setw(48) << metric.GetMetricName() << std::setw(32) << metric.GetNamespace(); const auto &dimensions = metric.GetDimensions(); for (auto iter = dimensions.cbegin(); iter != dimensions.cend(); ++iter) { const auto &dimkv = *iter; std::cout << dimkv.GetName() << " = " << dimkv.GetValue(); if (iter + 1 != dimensions.cend()) { std::cout << ", "; } } std::cout << std::endl; } const auto &next_token = outcome.GetResult().GetNextToken(); request.SetNextToken(next_token); done = next_token.empty(); }
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For API details, see ListMetrics in Amazon SDK for C++ API Reference.
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- Java
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- SDK for Java 2.x
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There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the Amazon Code Examples Repository
. public static void listMets( CloudWatchClient cw, String namespace) { boolean done = false; String nextToken = null; try { while(!done) { ListMetricsResponse response; if (nextToken == null) { ListMetricsRequest request = ListMetricsRequest.builder() .namespace(namespace) .build(); response = cw.listMetrics(request); } else { ListMetricsRequest request = ListMetricsRequest.builder() .namespace(namespace) .nextToken(nextToken) .build(); response = cw.listMetrics(request); } for (Metric metric : response.metrics()) { System.out.printf("Retrieved metric %s", metric.metricName()); System.out.println(); } if(response.nextToken() == null) { done = true; } else { nextToken = response.nextToken(); } } } catch (CloudWatchException e) { System.err.println(e.awsErrorDetails().errorMessage()); System.exit(1); } }
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For API details, see ListMetrics in Amazon SDK for Java 2.x API Reference.
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- JavaScript
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- SDK for JavaScript (v3)
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There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the Amazon Code Examples Repository
. Create the client in a separate module and export it.
import { CloudWatchClient } from "@aws-sdk/client-cloudwatch"; import { DEFAULT_REGION } from "libs/utils/util-aws-sdk.js"; export const client = new CloudWatchClient({ region: DEFAULT_REGION });
Import the SDK and client modules and call the API.
import { ListMetricsCommand } from "@aws-sdk/client-cloudwatch"; import { client } from "../libs/client.js"; export const run = async () => { // Use the AWS console to see available namespaces and metric names. Custom metrics can also be created. // https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/viewing_metrics_with_cloudwatch.html const command = new ListMetricsCommand({ Dimensions: [ { Name: "LogGroupName", }, ], MetricName: "IncomingLogEvents", Namespace: "AWS/Logs", }); try { return await client.send(command); } catch (err) { console.error(err); } }; export default run();
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For more information, see Amazon SDK for JavaScript Developer Guide.
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For API details, see ListMetrics in Amazon SDK for JavaScript API Reference.
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- SDK for JavaScript (v2)
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There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the Amazon Code Examples Repository
. // Load the AWS SDK for Node.js var AWS = require('aws-sdk'); // Set the region AWS.config.update({region: 'REGION'}); // Create CloudWatch service object var cw = new AWS.CloudWatch({apiVersion: '2010-08-01'}); var params = { Dimensions: [ { Name: 'LogGroupName', /* required */ }, ], MetricName: 'IncomingLogEvents', Namespace: 'AWS/Logs' }; cw.listMetrics(params, function(err, data) { if (err) { console.log("Error", err); } else { console.log("Metrics", JSON.stringify(data.Metrics)); } });
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For more information, see Amazon SDK for JavaScript Developer Guide.
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For API details, see ListMetrics in Amazon SDK for JavaScript API Reference.
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- Kotlin
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- SDK for Kotlin
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This is prerelease documentation for a feature in preview release. It is subject to change.
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There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the Amazon Code Examples Repository
. suspend fun listMets(namespaceVal: String?): ArrayList<String>? { val metList = ArrayList<String>() val request = ListMetricsRequest { namespace = namespaceVal } CloudWatchClient { region = "us-east-1" }.use { cwClient -> val reponse = cwClient.listMetrics(request) reponse.metrics?.forEach { metrics -> val data = metrics.metricName if (!metList.contains(data)) { metList.add(data!!) } } } return metList }
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For API details, see ListMetrics
in Amazon SDK for Kotlin API reference.
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- Python
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- SDK for Python (Boto3)
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There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the Amazon Code Examples Repository
. class CloudWatchWrapper: """Encapsulates Amazon CloudWatch functions.""" def __init__(self, cloudwatch_resource): """ :param cloudwatch_resource: A Boto3 CloudWatch resource. """ self.cloudwatch_resource = cloudwatch_resource def list_metrics(self, namespace, name, recent=False): """ Gets the metrics within a namespace that have the specified name. If the metric has no dimensions, a single metric is returned. Otherwise, metrics for all dimensions are returned. :param namespace: The namespace of the metric. :param name: The name of the metric. :param recent: When True, only metrics that have been active in the last three hours are returned. :return: An iterator that yields the retrieved metrics. """ try: kwargs = {'Namespace': namespace, 'MetricName': name} if recent: kwargs['RecentlyActive'] = 'PT3H' # List past 3 hours only metric_iter = self.cloudwatch_resource.metrics.filter(**kwargs) logger.info("Got metrics for %s.%s.", namespace, name) except ClientError: logger.exception("Couldn't get metrics for %s.%s.", namespace, name) raise else: return metric_iter
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For API details, see ListMetrics in Amazon SDK for Python (Boto3) API Reference.
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- Ruby
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- SDK for Ruby
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There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the Amazon Code Examples Repository
. # Lists available metrics for a metric namespace in Amazon CloudWatch. # # @param cloudwatch_client [Aws::CloudWatch::Client] # An initialized CloudWatch client. # @param metric_namespace [String] The namespace of the metric. # @example # list_metrics_for_namespace( # Aws::CloudWatch::Client.new(region: 'us-east-1'), # 'SITE/TRAFFIC' # ) def list_metrics_for_namespace(cloudwatch_client, metric_namespace) response = cloudwatch_client.list_metrics(namespace: metric_namespace) if response.metrics.count.positive? response.metrics.each do |metric| puts " Metric name: #{metric.metric_name}" if metric.dimensions.count.positive? puts " Dimensions:" metric.dimensions.each do |dimension| puts " Name: #{dimension.name}, Value: #{dimension.value}" end else puts "No dimensions found." end end else puts "No metrics found for namespace '#{metric_namespace}'. " \ "Note that it could take up to 15 minutes for recently-added metrics " \ "to become available." end end # Full example call: def run_me metric_namespace = "SITE/TRAFFIC" # Replace us-west-2 with the AWS Region you're using for Amazon CloudWatch. region = "us-east-1" cloudwatch_client = Aws::CloudWatch::Client.new(region: region) # Add three datapoints. puts "Continuing..." unless datapoint_added_to_metric?( cloudwatch_client, metric_namespace, "UniqueVisitors", "SiteName", "example.com", 5_885.0, "Count" ) puts "Continuing..." unless datapoint_added_to_metric?( cloudwatch_client, metric_namespace, "UniqueVisits", "SiteName", "example.com", 8_628.0, "Count" ) puts "Continuing..." unless datapoint_added_to_metric?( cloudwatch_client, metric_namespace, "PageViews", "PageURL", "example.html", 18_057.0, "Count" ) puts "Metrics for namespace '#{metric_namespace}':" list_metrics_for_namespace(cloudwatch_client, metric_namespace) end run_me if $PROGRAM_NAME == __FILE__
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For API details, see ListMetrics in Amazon SDK for Ruby API Reference.
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- SAP ABAP
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- SDK for SAP ABAP
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There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the Amazon Code Examples Repository
. "The following list-metrics example displays the metrics for Amazon CloudWatch." TRY. oo_result = lo_cwt->listmetrics( " oo_result is returned for testing purposes. " iv_namespace = iv_namespace ). DATA(lt_metrics) = oo_result->get_metrics( ). MESSAGE 'Metrics retrieved.' TYPE 'I'. CATCH /aws1/cx_cwtinvparamvalueex . MESSAGE 'The specified argument was not valid.' TYPE 'E'. ENDTRY.
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For API details, see ListMetrics in Amazon SDK for SAP ABAP API reference.
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For a complete list of Amazon SDK developer guides and code examples, see Using CloudWatch with an Amazon SDK. This topic also includes information about getting started and details about previous SDK versions.