Question: How to enable DynamoDB monitoring?

Answered by Rafal Wilinski
Answer
To enable DynamoDB monitoring, you can use Amazon CloudWatch. Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring service for AWS resources and applications that you run on AWS. To enable monitoring for your DynamoDB table, you can do the following steps:
- Open the AWS Management Console for DynamoDB.
- Go to the table you want to monitor and choose the "Monitoring" tab.
- Choose "Enable" for "DynamoDB Metrics" and "DynamoDB Streams Metrics" to start sending data to CloudWatch.
Alternatively, you can also use the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) or one of the AWS SDKs to enable monitoring for DynamoDB. You could also use third-party monitoring and alerting tool like Datadog, Prometheus, etc., which can be integrated with Cloudwatch to alert and monitor your DynamoDB tables.
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