Monitoring SQS queues plays a vital role in an application's life cycle. There are many functions that are dependent on monitoring, using CloudWatch and relevant triggers. For example, you monitor the size of a queue and define a trigger to automatically scale up EC2 instances with an Auto Scaling group. Similarly, you can scale the number of instances serving the consumer process if the size of a queue is smaller. Considering the criticality of monitoring with SQS, CloudWatch and SQS are integrated so that you can easily view and analyze various CloudWatch metrics for SQS queues. Queue metrics can be viewed and analyzed using an SQS console, CloudWatch console, programmatically using APIs, or using the CLI.
Amazon automatically gathers CloudWatch metrics for an SQS queue and pushes it to CloudWatch with an interval of five minutes. Amazon gathers...
