monitoring.md

Monitoring

In the monitoring section you can configure monitoring for your pipelines and services.

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

monitoring is a section in the root lof your liminal.yml file and is a list of metrics_backends and a list of alerts_backends.

metrics_backends are where metrics for your pipelines are automatically sent.

alerts_backendss automatically register alerts based on metrics_backend they are paired with.

metrics_backend attributes

For fully detailed information on metrics backends see: metrics backends.

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.