Documentation forSolarWinds Observability SaaS

Simple Queue Service (SQS) metrics

Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a fully managed message queuing service that makes it easy to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications. 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 SQS 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 SQS metrics in the Metrics Explorer, type AWS.SQS in the search box.

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

Health score. A health score provides real-time insight into the overall health and performance of your monitored entities. The health score is calculated based on anomalies detected for the entity, alerts triggered for the entity's metrics, and the status of the entity. The health score is displayed as a single numerical value that ranges from a Good (70-100) to Moderate (40-69) to Bad (0-39) distinction.

To view the health score for Simple Queue Service (SQS) entities in the Metrics Explorer, filter the sw.metrics.healthscore metric by entity_types and select awssqs.

AWS.SQS.ApproximateAgeOfOldestMessage

seconds (s)

The approximate age of the oldest non-deleted message in the queue.

AWS.SQS.ApproximateNumberOfMessagesDelayed

Count

The number of messages in the queue that are delayed and not available for reading immediately.

AWS.SQS.ApproximateNumberOfMessagesNotVisible

Count

The number of messages that are "in flight." Messages are considered in flight if they have been sent to a client but have not yet been deleted or have not yet reached the end of their visibility window.

AWS.SQS.ApproximateNumberOfMessagesVisible

Count

The number of messages available for retrieval from the queue.

AWS.SQS.NumberOfEmptyReceives

Count

The number of ReceiveMessage API calls that did not return a message.

AWS.SQS.NumberOfMessagesDeleted

Count

The number of messages deleted from the queue.

AWS.SQS.NumberOfMessagesReceived

Count

The number of messages returned by calls to the ReceiveMessage API action.

AWS.SQS.NumberOfMessagesSent

Count

The number of messages added to a queue.

AWS.SQS.SentMessageSize

bytes

The size of messages added to a queue.