Monitoring DynamoDB

When you look at what metrics you need to concentrate on when monitoring DynamoDB, there are a few that come into focus:

• Our GET and PUT requests are in the range of what we expected
• We are not being throttled by either read or write capacity

From the DynamoDB console itself, we can get quite a few metrics regarding our table's health.

First, we can see both read and write capacity at a glance.

There is also a section in the metrics of any table that you choose for basic latency showing four areas of interest: GET, PUT, Query, and Scan Latency.

Let's log in to the Amazon Management Console and take a look at these basic metrics for ourselves:

1. Log in to the Amazon Management Console using the account you previously created for the projects table in DynamoDB.
2. In the search box at the top, type DynamoDB so that the service name appears in the results. Click DynamoDB to be taken to the DynamoDB service. On the top...