Monitor Amazon DynamoDB operation counts with Amazon CloudWatch
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This article explains how to monitor the number of successful requests for different Amazon DynamoDB operations using Amazon CloudWatch.
Specifically, the article covers:
- The default CloudWatch metrics available for DynamoDB tables
- How to convert the latency metric to a count metric by changing the statistic to "Sample count"
- Creating a custom CloudWatch dashboard to display operation counts
- Providing JSON code for a dashboard that shows all operation counts and totals
- Cleaning up by deleting unused custom dashboards
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