MetricMonitoredCommand

[SufyanRizvi24]

Describe the issue

It would be nice to know if a particular metric is being monitored or not. Currently, the only way to check if a metric is being monitored is if we get datapoints for it using the GetMetricStatisticsCommand or the GetMetricDataCommand. Like, I want to check if my 5XX errors are being monitored, if there are no errors it states not enough data points which leads me to assume that it is not being monitored.
Hopefully someone has a solution.
Thanks!

Links

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSJavaScriptSDK/v3/latest/client/cloudwatch/

[zshzbh]

Hey @SufyanRizvi24 ,

I have forwarded your feedback to the service documentation team.

Thanks!
Maggie

[zshzbh]

Hey @SufyanRizvi24 ,

I just got back from service team -

Can you provide more info on what the you are trying to do?
if the '5XX errors' metric is a custom metric emitted using PutMetricData, you can emit a 0 datapoint in case you don't get any errors, that way you will always have datapoints for it.
If it's a vended metric such as Lambda Errors Count for example, you can use math expression Fill to fill with 0 when there are no datapoints.

[SufyanRizvi24]

Thank you for your response.

I am trying to determine whether the HTTPCode_ELB_5XX_Count metric is actively monitored. According to the AWS documentation, this metric reports data points only when there is a nonzero value. Consequently, since my load balancer hasn't encountered any errors during the period I'm investigating, no data points are returned and I cannot flag the metric as being not monitored. How can I address this issue?

[zshzbh]

Hey @SufyanRizvi24 ,

Could you please clarify what does that mean by "I cannot flag the metric as being not monitored"? If the you are creating an alarm, you can still create an alarm and set missing data as not breaching. If there is some other use-case, you can create a lambda and emit a metric themself on top of HTTPCode_ELB_5XX_Count.