metrics_backends

Metrics Backends

metrics_backend is the definition of a metrics backend to which all automatically generated metrics from your pipeline are sent to and is part of the metrics_backends list in the monitoring section of your liminal.yml

  - metrics_backend: cloudwatch_metrics
    type: aws_cloudwatch
    namespace: DataPipeline
    AWS_REGION_NAME: us-east-1

A metrics_backend is defined by the following attribtues:

metrics_backend attributes

metrics_backend: name of your metrics backend

type: type of the metrics backend. The current available metrics backends are: aws_cloudwatch.

Different metrics backend types require their own additional configuration. For example, aws_cloudwatch metrics backend requires namespace to be configured.

metrics_backend types

1. aws cloudwatch