How to confirm progress of AWS Step Function using Cloud watch

Question

I want to know how to confirm progress info of AWS Step Function using Cloud Watch API.

I thought I could get confirm progress info by using GetMetricStatistics method, but it did not work.

Below is the GetMetricStatistics(Amazon Cloud Watch API for JavaScript) Reference.

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Please tell me how to confirm progress info of AWS Step Function using Cloud Watch API.

Thanks.

Answer 1

To establish a baseline you should, at a minimum, monitor the following metrics:

ActivitiesStarted
ActivitiesTimedOut
ExecutionsStarted
ExecutionsTimedOut
LambdaFunctionsStarted
LambdaFunctionsTimedOut

And:

State Machine Metrics

The following metrics are available for Step Functions state machines:

Execution Metrics

The AWS/States namespace includes the following metrics for Step Functions executions:

Metric    Description
ExecutionTime The interval, in milliseconds, between the time the execution starts and the time it closes.
ExecutionThrottled    The number of StateEntered events in addition to retries.
ExecutionsAborted The number of aborted or terminated executions.
ExecutionsFailed  The number of failed executions.
ExecutionsStarted The number of started executions.
ExecutionsSucceeded   The number of successfully completed executions.
ExecutionsTimedOut    The number of executions that time out for any reason.

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