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With AWS monitoring integration, classic (formerly "built-in") services are monitored out-of-the-box. You can also monitor other AWS services that influence the performance of your AWS-hosted applications.

You can receive Amazon CloudWatch metrics for multiple predefined services. You can view graphs per service instance, with a set of dimensions, and create custom graphs that you can pin to your dashboards. You can reduce your CloudWatch costs and throttling by selecting which additional services to monitor. Additionally, for non-classic services, you can choose which metrics you want to monitor.

AWS cloud services monitored by default

As a result of AWS monitoring integration, some services are monitored out-of-the-box. Such services are marked as classic.

    Amazon Dynamo Database (classic) Amazon EC2 (classic) Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling (classic) AWS Lambda (classic) AWS Application and Network Load Balancer (classic) Elastic Load Balancer (classic) Amazon S3 (classic) Amazon RDS (classic) Amazon EBS (classic)

For information about differences between classic services and other services, see Migrate from AWS classic (formerly 'built-in') services to cloud services.

Other AWS cloud services

In addition to cloud services monitored by default, you can monitor other AWS services that affect the performance of your AWS-hosted applications.

    Amazon DynamoDB Amazon EBS AWS Lambda Amazon RDS AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority (ACM PCA) Amazon API Gateway Amazon AppStream 2.0 AWS AppSync AWS App Runner Amazon Athena Amazon Aurora AWS Billing AWS Chatbot Amazon CloudFront AWS CloudHSM (V2) Amazon CloudSearch Amazon CloudWatch Logs AWS API Usage AWS CodeBuild Amazon Cognito Amazon Connect AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) AWS DataSync AWS Direct Connect Amazon DocumentDB Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) Amazon EC2 API Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Amazon EC2 Spot Fleet Amazon ECS Container Insights Amazon ElastiCache AWS Elastic Beanstalk Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) Amazon Elastic Inference Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) Amazon Elasticsearch Service (ES) Amazon Elastic Transcoder AWS Elemental MediaConnect AWS Elemental MediaConvert AWS Elemental MediaPackage AWS Elemental MediaTailor Amazon EventBridge Amazon FSx Amazon GameLift AWS Glue Amazon Inspector AWS IoT AWS IoT Analytics AWS IoT Things Graph Amazon Keyspaces (Cassandra) Amazon Kinesis Amazon Lex Amazon MSK (Kafka) Amazon MQ Amazon Neptune AWS OpsWorks Amazon Polly Amazon QLDB Amazon Redshift Amazon Rekognition AWS RoboMaker Amazon Route 53 Amazon Route 53 Resolver Amazon SageMaker AWS Service Catalog Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) Amazon Simple Workflow Service (SWF) AWS Step Functions AWS Storage Gateway AWS Systems Manager Run Command Amazon Textract AWS Transfer Family AWS Transit Gateway Amazon Translate AWS Trusted Advisor Amazon VPC NAT Gateways AWS Site-to-Site VPN AWS WAF Classic AWS WAF Amazon WorkMail Amazon WorkSpaces

Cloud services with their respective Dynatrace entity types

Not all cloud services have Dynatrace entities created for them and can have tags imported from the cloud. Expand the table below to see cloud services with their respective Dynatrace entity types and to check if they have tags imported from the cloud provider.

List of AWS services with entities and tags

For each non-built-in service, the CUSTOM_DEVICE dimension is generated based on the main dimension

ServiceCloud instanceTag monitoring and filteringDynatrace entity type

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling (built-in)

AutoScalingGroupName

Applicable

AUTO_SCALING_GROUP

AWS Lambda (built-in)

FunctionName

Applicable

AWS_LAMBDA_FUNCTION

Amazon Application and Network Load Balancer (built-in)

LoadBalancer

Applicable

AWS_APPLICATION_LOAD_BALANCER

Amazon Application and Network Load Balancer (built-in)

LoadBalancer

Applicable

AWS_NETWORK_LOAD_BALANCER

Amazon EBS (built-in)

VolumeId

Applicable

EBS_VOLUME

Amazon EC2 (built-in)

InstanceId

Applicable

EC2_INSTANCE

Amazon Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) (built-in)

LoadBalancerName

Applicable

ELASTIC_LOAD_BALANCER

Amazon RDS (built-in)

DBInstanceIdentifier

Applicable

RELATIONAL_DATABASE_SERVICE

AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority

PrivateCAArn

Applicable

cloud:aws:acmprivateca

Amazon API Gateway

ApiName

Applicable

cloud:aws:api_gateway

AWS App Runner

ServiceName

Applicable

cloud:aws:app_runner

Amazon AppStream

Fleet

Applicable

cloud:aws:appstream

AWS AppSync

GraphQLAPIId

Applicable

cloud:aws:appsync

Amazon Athena

WorkGroup

Applicable

cloud:aws:athena

Amazon Aurora

DBClusterIdentifier

Applicable

cloud:aws:aurora

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

AutoScalingGroupName

-

cloud:aws:autoscaling

Amazon CloudFront

DistributionId

Applicable

cloud:aws:cloud_front

AWS CloudHSM

ClusterId

Applicable

cloud:aws:cloudhsm

Amazon CloudSearch

DomainName

-

cloud:aws:cloudsearch

AWS CodeBuild

ProjectName

Applicable

cloud:aws:codebuild

AWS DataSync

TaskId

Applicable

cloud:aws:datasync

Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)

ClusterId

Applicable

cloud:aws:dax

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)

ReplicationInstanceIdentifier

Applicable

cloud:aws:dms

Amazon DocumentDB

DBClusterIdentifier

Applicable

cloud:aws:documentdb

AWS Direct Connect

ConnectionId

Applicable

cloud:aws:dxcon

Amazon DynamoDB

TableName

Applicable

cloud:aws:dynamodb

Amazon EBS

VolumeId

Applicable

cloud:aws:ebs

Amazon EC2 Spot Fleet

FleetRequestId

-

cloud:aws:ec2_spot

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)

ClusterName

Applicable

cloud:aws:ecs

Amazon ECS Container Insights

ClusterName

Applicable

cloud:aws:ecs:cluster

Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)

FileSystemId

Applicable

cloud:aws:efs

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

ClusterName

Applicable

cloud:aws:eks:cluster

Amazon ElastiCache (EC)

CacheClusterId

Applicable

cloud:aws:elasticache

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

EnvironmentName

Applicable

cloud:aws:elasticbeanstalk

Amazon Elastic Transcoder

PipelineId

-

cloud:aws:elastictranscoder

Amazon Elasticsearch Service (ES)

DomainName

Applicable

cloud:aws:es

Amazon EventBridge

EventBusName

Applicable

cloud:aws:events

Amazon FSx

FileSystemId

Applicable

cloud:aws:fsx

Amazon GameLift

FleetId

-

cloud:aws:gamelift

AWS Glue

JobName

Applicable

cloud:aws:glue

Amazon Inspector

AssessmentTemplateArn

Applicable

cloud:aws:inspector

Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka

Cluster Name

Applicable

cloud:aws:kafka

AWS Lambda

FunctionName

Applicable

cloud:aws:lambda

Amazon Lex

BotName

Applicable

cloud:aws:lex

Amazon CloudWatch Logs

LogGroupName

Applicable

cloud:aws:logs

AWS Elemental MediaTailor

ConfigurationName

Applicable

cloud:aws:media_tailor

AWS Elemental MediaConnect

FlowARN

-

cloud:aws:mediaconnect

AWS Elemental MediaPackage Live

Channel

Applicable

cloud:aws:mediapackagelive

AWS Elemental MediaPackage Video on Demand

PackagingConfiguration

Applicable

cloud:aws:mediapackagevod

Amazon VPC NAT Gateways

NatGatewayId

Applicable

cloud:aws:nat_gateway

Amazon Neptune

DBClusterIdentifier

Applicable

cloud:aws:neptune

AWS OpsWorks

StackId

Applicable

cloud:aws:opsworks

Amazon QLDB

LedgerName

Applicable

cloud:aws:qldb

Amazon RDS

DBInstanceIdentifier

Applicable

cloud:aws:rds

Amazon Redshift

ClusterIdentifier

Applicable

cloud:aws:redshift

AWS RoboMaker

SimulationJobId

Applicable

cloud:aws:robomaker

Amazon Route 53

HostedZoneId

Applicable

cloud:aws:route53

Amazon Route 53 Resolver

EndpointId

Applicable

cloud:aws:route53resolver

Amazon SageMaker Endpoints

EndpointName

Applicable

cloud:aws:sage_maker:endpoint

Amazon SageMaker Endpoint Instances

EndpointName

Applicable

cloud:aws:sage_maker:endpoint_instance

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)

TopicName

Applicable

cloud:aws:sns

Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)

QueueName

Applicable

cloud:aws:sqs

AWS Storage Gateway

GatewayName

Applicable

cloud:aws:storagegateway

Amazon SWF

Domain

-

cloud:aws:swf

AWS Transfer Family

ServerId

Applicable

cloud:aws:transfer

AWS Transit Gateway

TransitGateway

Applicable

cloud:aws:transitgateway

AWS Site-to-Site VPN

VpnId

Applicable

cloud:aws:vpn

Amazon WorkMail

OrganizationId

Applicable

cloud:aws:workmail

Amazon WorkSpaces

WorkspaceId

Applicable

cloud:aws:workspaces

Configuration API

To list all AWS-supported services on your cluster by the current version, use the AWS-supported services API.

Monitoring consumption

As of 2021, all cloud services consume DDUs. The amount of DDU consumption per service instance depends on the number of monitored metrics and their dimensions (each metric dimension results in the ingestion of 1 data point; 1 data point consumes 0.001 DDUs).

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Infrastructure ObservabilityAWS