topic Re: How to trigger alert for the status of SQS message count every on hour? in Alerting

How to trigger alert for the status of SQS message count every on hour?

fadilck — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 07:34:50 GMT

Hi, I have a requirement to trigger an alert on AWS SQS message count every one hour. We already has integrated the AWS.

I have created a metric event to get the SQS count. But I need to trigger alert for every 1 hour to get the live count. Please let me know, how to configure this. Currently if one alert is triggered, if it is open, it will not trigger another alert.

Re: How to trigger alert for the status of SQS message count every on hour?

GosiaMurawska — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 09:28:51 GMT

Hi @fadilck, did you manage to solve this one? It would be great if you share it with the Community 🙂

Re: How to trigger alert for the status of SQS message count every on hour?

Peter_Youssef — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 11:37:25 GMT

Hi @fadilck

Since you've already integrated AWS and created a metric event to track the SQS message count, let's ensure it's set up correctly for monitoring.

Step 1: Go to Metrics in Dynatrace and ensure you have selected the correct metric for SQS message count (Ex: aws.sqs.MessageCount).
Step 2: Create a metric event by selecting the metric, and configure it to capture the message count at the granularity you need (for example, every 1 hour).

Configuring Metric Threshold:

You'll need to define the threshold for triggering the alert.
This could be based on the number of messages in the queue over the last hour or another condition specific to your environment.
Under the metric event, configure the threshold condition (e.g., number of messages > X in the last 1 hour).

Hoping it helps.
BR,

Peter