WorkSpaces Pools metrics and dimensions - Amazon WorkSpaces
Pools usage metrics
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WorkSpaces Pools metrics and dimensions

Important

The WorkSpaces Pools feature is not available in the Beijing and Ningxia Regions.

Amazon WorkSpaces sends the following WorkSpaces Pools metrics and dimension information to Amazon CloudWatch.

WorkSpaces Pools sends metrics to CloudWatch one time every minute. The AWS/Workspaces namespace includes the following metrics.

Pools usage metrics

Metric Description
ActiveUserSessionCapacity

The number of user sessions currently being used for streaming sessions.

Units: Count

Valid statistics: Average, Minimum, Maximum
ActualUserSessionCapacity

The total number of pool sessions that are available for streaming or are currently streaming.

ActualUserSessionCapacity = AvailableUserSessionCapacity + ActiveUserSessionCapacity

Units: Count

Valid statistics: Average, Minimum, Maximum
AvailableUserSessionCapacity

The number of idle pool sessions currently available for user streaming.

AvailableUserSessionCapacity = ActualUserSessionCapacity - ActiveUserSessionCapacity

Units: Count

Valid statistics: Average, Minimum, Maximum
PendingUserSessionCapacity

The number of sessions being provisioned for your pool. Represents the additional number of streaming sessions the pool can support after provisioning is complete.

Units: Count

Valid statistics: Average, Minimum, Maximum
UserSessionsCapacityUtilization

The percentage of sessions in a pool that are being used, using the following formula.

UserSessionCapacityUtilization = (ActiveUserSessionCapacity / ActualUserSessionCapacity) * 100

Monitoring this metric helps with decisions about increasing or decreasing the value of a pool's desired capacity.

Units: Percent

Valid statistics: Average, Minimum, Maximum
DesiredUserSessionCapacity

The total number of sessions that are either running or pending. This represents the total number of concurrent streaming sessions your pool can support in a steady state.

DesiredUserSessionCapacity = ActualUserSessionCapacity + PendingUserSessionCapacity

Units: Count

Valid statistics: Average, Minimum, Maximum
InsufficientCapacityError

The number of session requests rejected due to lack of capacity.

You can set alarms to use this metric to be notified of users waiting for streaming sessions.

Units: Count

Valid statistics: Average, Minimum, Maximum, Sum