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Publishing Custom Metric Data

A number of Amazon services publish their own metrics in namespaces beginning with " AWS " You can also publish custom metric data using your own namespace (as long as it doesn’t begin with " AWS ").

Publish Custom Metric Data

To publish your own metric data, call the AmazonCloudWatchClient’s putMetricData method with a PutMetricDataRequest. The PutMetricDataRequest must include the custom namespace to use for the data, and information about the data point itself in a MetricDatum object.

Note

You cannot specify a namespace that begins with " AWS ". Namespaces that begin with " AWS " are reserved for use by Amazon Web Services products.

Imports 

import com.amazonaws.services.cloudwatch.AmazonCloudWatch;
import com.amazonaws.services.cloudwatch.AmazonCloudWatchClientBuilder;
import com.amazonaws.services.cloudwatch.model.Dimension;
import com.amazonaws.services.cloudwatch.model.MetricDatum;
import com.amazonaws.services.cloudwatch.model.PutMetricDataRequest;
import com.amazonaws.services.cloudwatch.model.PutMetricDataResult;
import com.amazonaws.services.cloudwatch.model.StandardUnit;

Code 

final AmazonCloudWatch cw =
    AmazonCloudWatchClientBuilder.defaultClient();

Dimension dimension = new Dimension()
    .withName("UNIQUE_PAGES")
    .withValue("URLS");

MetricDatum datum = new MetricDatum()
    .withMetricName("PAGES_VISITED")
    .withUnit(StandardUnit.None)
    .withValue(data_point)
    .withDimensions(dimension);

PutMetricDataRequest request = new PutMetricDataRequest()
    .withNamespace("SITE/TRAFFIC")
    .withMetricData(datum);

PutMetricDataResult response = cw.putMetricData(request);

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