Documentation forSolarWinds Observability SaaS

Simple Notification Service (SNS) metrics

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) is a flexible, fully managed pub/sub messaging and mobile notifications service for coordinating the delivery of messages to subscribing endpoints and clients. Ensure your cloud platform is configured in SolarWinds Observability SaaS to collect this service's data. See Add an AWS cloud account. CloudWatch metrics must also be enabled for this service in the AWS Console for the metric data to be available.

Many of the collected metrics from AWS SNS entities are displayed as widgets in SolarWinds Observability explorers; additional metrics may be collected and available in the Metrics Explorer. You can also create an alert for when an entity's metric value moves out of a specific range. See Entities in SolarWinds Observability SaaS for information about entity types in SolarWinds Observability SaaS.

The following table lists some of the metrics collected for these entities. To see the AWS SNS metrics in the Metrics Explorer, type AWS.SNS in the search box.

Metric Units Description
sw.metrics.healthscore Percent (%)

Health state. The health state provides real-time insight into the overall health and performance of your monitored entities. The health state is determined based on anomalies detected for the entity, alerts triggered for the entity's metrics, and the status of the entity. The health state is displayed as one of the following four states and colors: Good, Moderate, Bad, or Unknown. You can determine the impact of the alerts, anomalies, and statuses on the health of an entity type by going to Settings > Health, and selecting a specific entity type. You can also customize the impact.

To view the health of AWS SNS entities in the Metrics Explorer, filter the sw.metrics.healthscore metric by entity_types and select awssnstopic.

AWS.SNS.NotificationSuccessRate Percent (%)

The percentage of successfully delivered notifications out of the total notifications attempted.

AWS.SNS.NumberOfMessagesPublished Count

NumberOfMessagesPublished. The average number of messages published to Amazon SNS topics.

AWS.SNS.NumberOfNotificationsDelivered Count

NumberOfNotificationsDelivered. The average number of messages successfully delivered from Amazon SNS topics to subscribing endpoints.

AWS.SNS.NumberOfNotificationsFailed Count

NumberOfNotificationsFailed. The average number of messages that Amazon SNS failed to deliver.

AWS.SNS.NumberOfNotificationsFailedToRedriveToDlq Count

NumberOfNotificationsFailedToRedriveToDlq. The average number of messages that couldn't be moved to a dead-letter queue.

AWS.SNS.NumberOfNotificationsFilteredOut Count

NumberOfNotificationsFilteredOut. The average number of messages that were rejected by subscription filter policies. A filter policy rejects a message when the message attributes don't match the policy attributes.

AWS.SNS.NumberOfNotificationsFilteredOut-InvalidAttributes Count

NumberOfNotificationsFilteredOut-InvalidAttributes. The average number of messages that were rejected by subscription filter policies because the messages' attributes are invalid.

AWS.SNS.NumberOfNotificationsFilteredOut-InvalidMessageBody Count The number of notifications filtered out due to invalid message body content.
AWS.SNS.NumberOfNotificationsFilteredOut-MessageAttributes Count The number of notifications filtered out due to message attributes not matching the filter policy.
AWS.SNS.NumberOfNotificationsFilteredOut-MessageBody Count The number of notifications filtered out due to message body content not matching the filter policy.
AWS.SNS.NumberOfNotificationsFilteredOut-NoMessageAttributes Count

NumberOfNotificationsFilteredOut-NoMessageAttributes. The average number of messages that were rejected by subscription filter policies because the messages have no attributes.

AWS.SNS.NumberOfNotificationsRedrivenToDlq Count

NumberOfNotificationsRedrivenToDlq. The average number of messages that have been moved to a dead-letter queue.

AWS.SNS.PublishSize bytes

PublishSize. The average size of messages published.

AWS.SNS.SMSMonthToDateSpentUSD USD

The total amount of money spent on SMS messages for the current month.

AWS.SNS.SMSSuccessRate Percent (%) The percentage of successfully delivered SMS messages out of the total SMS messages attempted.