Getting Metrics from Amazon CloudWatch - Amazon SDK for JavaScript
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Getting Metrics from Amazon CloudWatch

JavaScript code example that applies to Node.js execution

This Node.js code example shows:

  • How to retrieve a list of published CloudWatch metrics.

  • How to publish data points to CloudWatch metrics.

The Scenario

Metrics are data about the performance of your systems. You can enable detailed monitoring of some resources, such as your Amazon EC2 instances, or your own application metrics.

In this example, a series of Node.js modules are used to get metrics from CloudWatch and to send events to Amazon CloudWatch Events. The Node.js modules use the SDK for JavaScript to get metrics from CloudWatch using these methods of the CloudWatch client class:

For more information about CloudWatch metrics, see Using Amazon CloudWatch Metrics in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide.

Prerequisite Tasks

To set up and run this example, you must first complete these tasks:

Listing Metrics

Create a Node.js module with the file name cw_listmetrics.js. Be sure to configure the SDK as previously shown. To access CloudWatch, create an AWS.CloudWatch service object. Create a JSON object containing the parameters needed to list metrics within the AWS/Logs namespace. Call the listMetrics method to list the IncomingLogEvents metric.

// Load the AWS SDK for Node.js var AWS = require("aws-sdk"); // Set the region AWS.config.update({ region: "REGION" }); // Create CloudWatch service object var cw = new AWS.CloudWatch({ apiVersion: "2010-08-01" }); var params = { Dimensions: [ { Name: "LogGroupName" /* required */, }, ], MetricName: "IncomingLogEvents", Namespace: "AWS/Logs", }; cw.listMetrics(params, function (err, data) { if (err) { console.log("Error", err); } else { console.log("Metrics", JSON.stringify(data.Metrics)); } });

To run the example, type the following at the command line.

node cw_listmetrics.js

This sample code can be found here on GitHub.

Submitting Custom Metrics

Create a Node.js module with the file name cw_putmetricdata.js. Be sure to configure the SDK as previously shown. To access CloudWatch, create an AWS.CloudWatch service object. Create a JSON object containing the parameters needed to submit a data point for the PAGES_VISITED custom metric. Call the putMetricData method.

// Load the AWS SDK for Node.js var AWS = require("aws-sdk"); // Set the region AWS.config.update({ region: "REGION" }); // Create CloudWatch service object var cw = new AWS.CloudWatch({ apiVersion: "2010-08-01" }); // Create parameters JSON for putMetricData var params = { MetricData: [ { MetricName: "PAGES_VISITED", Dimensions: [ { Name: "UNIQUE_PAGES", Value: "URLS", }, ], Unit: "None", Value: 1.0, }, ], Namespace: "SITE/TRAFFIC", }; cw.putMetricData(params, function (err, data) { if (err) { console.log("Error", err); } else { console.log("Success", JSON.stringify(data)); } });

To run the example, type the following at the command line.

node cw_putmetricdata.js

This sample code can be found here on GitHub.