View Amazon Direct Connect CloudWatch metrics - Amazon Direct Connect
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View Amazon Direct Connect CloudWatch metrics

Amazon Direct Connect sends the following metrics about your Direct Connect connections. Amazon CloudWatch then aggregates these data points to 1-minute or 5-minute intervals. By default, Direct Connect metric data is written to CloudWatch at 5-minute intervals.

Note

If you set a 1-minute interval, Direct Connect will make a best effort to write the metrics to CloudWatch using this interval, but it can't always be guaranteed.

You can use the following procedures to view the metrics for Direct Connect connections.

To view metrics using the CloudWatch console

Metrics are grouped first by the service namespace, and then by the various dimension combinations within each namespace. For more information about using Amazon CloudWatch to view Direct Connect metrics, including adding math functions or prebuilt queries, see Using Amazon CloudWatch metrics in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide.

  1. Open the CloudWatch console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/cloudwatch/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Metrics, and then choose All metrics.

  3. In the Metrics section, choose DX.

  4. Choose a ConnectionId or Metric name, and then choose any of the following to further define the metric:

    • Add to search — Adds this metric to your search results.

    • Search for this only — Searches only for this metric.

    • Remove from graph — Removes this metric from the graph.

    • Graph this metric only — Graphs only this metric.

    • Graph all search results — Graphs all metrics.

    • Graph with SQL query — Opens Metric Insights -query builder, allowing you to choose what you want to graph by creating an SQL query. For more information on using Metric Insights, see Query your metrics with CloudWatch Metrics Insights in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide.

To view metrics using the Amazon Direct Connect console

  1. Open the Amazon Direct Connect console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/directconnect/v2/home.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Connections.

  3. Select your connection.

  4. Choose the Monitoring tab to display the metrics for your connection.

To view metrics using the Amazon CLI

At a command prompt, use the following command.

aws cloudwatch list-metrics --namespace "AWS/DX"