AWS SNS monitoring integration

Important

Enable the AWS CloudWatch Metric Streams integration to monitor all CloudWatch metrics from your AWS services, including custom namespaces. Individual integrations are no longer our recommended option.

Our infrastructure integrations include an integration for reporting your Amazon Web Services Simple Notification Service (SNS) data to New Relic. This document explains how to activate the integration and describes the data reported.

Features

AWS Simple Notification Service (SNS) is a managed push notification service. With New Relic's AWS SNS integration, data reported to New Relic includes:

Messages sent and failed counts
Subscriptions confirmed and deleted
Additional metrics

SNS data is available in pre-built in New Relic. You can also create custom queries and charts, and create alert conditions to notify you of changes in SNS data.

Activate integration

To enable this integration follow standard procedures to Connect AWS services to New Relic.

Configuration and polling

You can change the polling frequency and filter data using configuration options. Default polling information for the AWS SNS integration includes:

New Relic polling interval: 5 minutes
AWS SNS data interval: 5 minutes

Find and use data

To explore your integration data:

Go to one.newrelic.com > All capabilities > Infrastructure > AWS.
Select any of the available SNS integration links.

You can query and explore your data using the QueueSample event type, with a provider value of SnsTopic.

Metric data

This integration collects the following metrics. For full descriptions of some of these metrics, see AWS's SNS metrics and dimensions.

Tip

Metrics indicated with an asterisk * are only fetched if extended inventory collection is on.

Metric	Description
`numberOfMessagesPublished`	The number of messages published.
`numberOfNotificationsDelivered`	The number of messages successfully delivered.
`numberOfNotificationsFailed`	The number of messages that Amazon SNS failed to deliver. For more info, see Amazon SNS metrics.
`publishSize`	The size (in bytes) of messages published, includes Minimum, Maximum, Average and Count.
`SubscriptionsPending`*	The number of subscriptions pending confirmation on this topic.
`SubscriptionsConfirmed`*	The number of confirmed subscriptions on this topic.
`SubscriptionsDeleted`*	The number of deleted subscriptions on this topic.