Support high resolution metrics

[chathsuom]

Support high resolution metrics

[noxdafox]

Hello,

CloudWatch supports 2 types of metrics:

1. Standard: the default ones with 1 minute minimum resolution
2. High Resolution: 1 second minimum resolution

This plugin publishes the metrics as standard metrics. All metric points are actually uploaded but CloudWatch aggregates them into a 1 minute period.

I can add support for high resolution metrics in the plugin but be aware that this will incur extra costs on your CloudWatch bills.

[chathsuom]

Hello,
Thanks for the prompt response.
We need only message count on some queues to try ECS scaling. I saw there is another issue that provides selecting only for e.g. messages.
We will have to evaluate the cost with that.
Also, I am not sure the effort and the feasibility, but do you think we can somehow configure the period against the queue and also the time of the day.

Thanks.

[noxdafox]

The configuration can only be static. Therefore, providing the requested granularity would be too cumbersome.

What I can provide, is a flag to enable high resolution on AWS CW itself. Nevertheless, it would be global for all metrics you export. Hence the costs need to be considered.

With the new version of the plugin under work you will be able to choose which metrics to export. See the README for the new version. You could export only the message queue sizes and use the high resolution together.

[chathsuom]

Do you think at a minimum, you can enable StorageResolution? As you said a flag may be.

[noxdafox]

Feature added in release v1.0.0.