Monitor metrics - Amazon Data Firehose
Services or capabilities described in Amazon Web Services documentation might vary by Region. To see the differences applicable to the China Regions, see Getting Started with Amazon Web Services in China (PDF).

Firehose supports database as a source in all Amazon Web Services Regions except China Regions, Amazon GovCloud (US) Regions, and Asia Pacific (Malaysia). This feature is in preview and is subject to change. Do not use it for your production workloads.

Monitor metrics

For sourcing CDC changes from databases, Firehose emits the following CloudWatch metrics at a table level.

Metric Description
DataReadFromDatabaseSource.Bytes The number of [raw] bytes read from the source database.

Units: Bytes
DataReadFromDatabaseSource.Records

The number of records read from the source database.

Units: Count
BytesPerSecondLimit

Current limit of throughput at which Firehose reads from source database.

Units: Bytes/sec
FailedValidation.Bytes The number of [raw] bytes that failed record validation.

Units: Bytes
FailedValidation.Records The number of records that failed record validation.

Units: Count
Dropped.Bytes The number of bytes that are dropped.

Units: Bytes
Dropped.Records The number of records that are dropped.

Units: Count