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Using CloudWatch with MediaConvert

You can use Amazon CloudWatch to gather metrics about your AWS Elemental MediaConvert jobs. Here are some examples of what you can do with CloudWatch:

Get details about your requests, queues, jobs, and outputs

Metrics are grouped according to dimension, including Operation metrics, Queue metrics, and Job metrics.

  • Operation metrics include any errors that occur when you interact with MediaConvert.

  • Queue metrics include details about all of your jobs in a given queue, like the total number of jobs, or the total duration of your outputs.

  • Job metrics include details about your outputs that you can use to identify trends, statistics, or potential issues with your video workflow.

For more information, see List of MediaConvert CloudWatch metrics.

Create CloudWatch dashboards and alarms

You can create CloudWatch dashboards to track things for a job queue. For example, you can track transcoding jobs that have completed or that have errors. You can also use metrics such as StandbyTime to create alarms to detect if there is a large backlog for a job queue. For more information, see Creating dashboards and alarms for AWS Elemental MediaConvert using Amazon CloudWatch.

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