Monitoring your automations - Amazon Systems Manager
Automation metrics
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Monitoring your automations

Metrics are the fundamental concept in Amazon CloudWatch. A metric represents a time-ordered set of data points that are published to CloudWatch. Think of a metric as a variable to monitor and the data points as representing the values of that variable over time.

Automation is a capability of Amazon Systems Manager. Systems Manager publishes metrics about Automation usage to CloudWatch. This allows you to set alarms based on those metrics.

To view Automation metrics in the CloudWatch console

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

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Metrics.

  3. Choose SSM.

  4. On the Metrics tab, choose Usage, and then choose By Amazon Resource.

  5. In the search box near the list of metrics, enter SSM.

To view Automation metrics using the Amazon CLI

Open a command prompt, and use the following command.

aws cloudwatch list-metrics \
    --namespace "AWS/Usage"

Automation metrics

Systems Manager sends the following Automation metrics to CloudWatch.

Metric Description
ConcurrentAutomationUsage The number of automations running at the same time in the current Amazon Web Services account and Amazon Web Services Region.
QueuedAutomationUsage The number of automations currently queued that have not started and have a status of Pending.

For more information about working with CloudWatch metrics, see the following topics in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide: