Access to this feature depends on your subscription level. Requires Infrastructure Pro.
New Relic Infrastructure's integrations include an integration for reporting your Amazon Web Services Simple Notification Service (SNS) data to New Relic products. This document explains how to activate the integration and describes the data reported.
Features
Amazon 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 and configuration/inventory data
SNS data is available in pre-built dashboards in New Relic. You can also create custom queries and charts in New Relic Insights, 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 Infrastructure.
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
- Amazon SNS data interval: 5 minutes
Find and use data
To explore your integration data in Infrastructure:
- Go to infrastructure.newrelic.com > Integrations > Amazon Web Services.
- Select any of the available SNS integration links.
In New Relic Insights, data is attached to 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 Amazon's SNS metrics and dimensions.
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. |
Inventory data
The following configuration options and inventory data are available with the New Relic Amazon SNS integration.
aws/sns/topic
Data indicated with an asterisk * are only fetched if extended inventory collection is on.
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
awsRegion |
The AWS region that the subscription is associated with. |
owner* |
The subscription's owner. |
topicArn |
The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the subscription's topic. |