AWS Elemental MediaPackage (Live, Video on Demand) monitoring
Dynatrace ingests metrics for multiple preselected namespaces, including AWS Elemental MediaPackage (Live, Video on Demand). You can view metrics for each service instance, split metrics into multiple dimensions, and create custom charts that you can pin to your dashboards.
Prerequisites
To enable monitoring for this service, you need
- An Environment or Cluster ActiveGate version 1.197+
- For AWS Elemental MediaPackage Live, Dynatrace version 1.203+
- For AWS Elemental MediaPackage Video on Demand, Dynatrace version 1.204+
- An updated AWS monitoring policy to include the additional AWS services.
To update the AWS IAM policy, use the JSON below.
Enable monitoring
To enable monitoring for this service, you first need to integrate Dynatrace with Amazon Web Services:
Add the service to monitoring
In order to view the service metrics, you must add the service to monitoring in your Dynatrace environment.
All cloud services consume Davis data units (DDUs). The amount of DDU consumption per service instance depends on the number of monitored metrics and their dimensions (each metric dimension results in the ingestion of 1 data point; 1 data point consumes 0.001 DDUs).
Monitor resources based on tags
You can choose to monitor resources based on existing AWS tags, as Dynatrace automatically imports them from service instances. Nevertheless, the transition from AWS to Dynatrace tagging isn't supported for all AWS services. Expand the table below to see which cloud services are filtered by tagging.
To monitor resources based on tags
- In the Dynatrace menu, go to Settings > Cloud and virtualization > AWS and select Edit for the desired AWS instance.
- For Resources to be monitored, select Monitor resources selected by tags.
- Enter the Key and Value.
- Select Save.
Configure service metrics
Once you add a service, Dynatrace starts automatically collecting a suite of metrics for this particular service. These are recommended metrics.
Recommended metrics:
- Are enabled by default
- Can't be disabled
- Can have recommended dimensions (enabled by default, can't be disabled)
- Can have optional dimensions (disabled by default, can be enabled)
Apart from the recommended metrics, most services have the possibility of enabling optional metrics.
Optional metrics:
- Can be added and configured manually
View service metrics
You can view the service metrics in your Dynatrace environment either on the custom device overview page or on your Dashboards page.
View metrics on the custom device overview page
To access the custom device overview page
- In the Dynatrace menu, go to Technologies and processes.
- Filter by service name and select the relevant custom device group.
- Once you select the custom device group, you're on the custom device group overview page.
- The custom device group overview page lists all instances (custom devices) belonging to the group. Select an instance to view the custom device overview page.
View metrics on your dashboard
After you add the service to monitoring, a preset dashboard containing all recommended metrics is automatically listed on your Dashboards page. To look for specific dashboards, filter by Preset and then by Name.
Note: For existing monitored services, you might need to resave your credentials for the preset dashboard to appear on the Dashboards page. To resave your credentials, go to Settings > Cloud and virtualization > AWS, select the desired AWS instance, and then select Save.
You can't make changes on a preset dashboard directly, but you can clone and edit it. To clone a dashboard, open the browse menu (…) and select Clone.
To remove a dashboard from the dashboards page, you can hide it. To hide a dashboard, open the browse menu (…) and select Hide.
Note: Hiding a dashboard doesn't affect other users.
To check the availability of preset dashboards for each AWS service, see the list below.
Available metrics
AWS Elemental MediaPackage Live
Name | Description | Unit | Statistics | Dimensions | Recommended |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
ActiveInput | Indicates if an input has been used as the source for an endpoint in AWS Elemental MediaPackage (it has been active). A value of 1 indicates that the input was active, and a 0 (zero) indicates that it wasn't. | Count | Multi | Region, IngestEndpoint, OriginEndpoint | |
EgressBytes | Number of bytes that AWS Elemental MediaPackage successfully sends for each request. If MediaPackage doesn't receive any requests for output in the specified interval, then no data is given. | Bytes | Multi | Channel | ✔️ |
EgressBytes | Bytes | Sum | Channel | ✔️ | |
EgressBytes | Count | Count | Channel | ||
EgressBytes | Bytes | Multi | Channel, OriginEndpoint | ||
EgressBytes | Bytes | Sum | Channel, OriginEndpoint | ✔️ | |
EgressBytes | Count | Count | Channel, OriginEndpoint | ||
EgressBytes | Bytes | Multi | Region | ✔️ | |
EgressBytes | Bytes | Sum | Region | ✔️ | |
EgressBytes | Count | Count | Region | ✔️ | |
EgressRequestCount | Number of content requests that AWS Elemental MediaPackage receives. If MediaPackage doesn't receive any requests for output in the specified interval, then no data is given. | Count | Sum | Channel | ✔️ |
EgressRequestCount | Count | Sum | Channel, OriginEndpoint | ||
EgressRequestCount | Count | Sum | Channel, StatusCodeRange | ✔️ | |
EgressRequestCount | Count | Sum | Channel, OriginEndpoint, StatusCodeRange | ||
EgressRequestCount | Count | Sum | Region, StatusCodeRange | ||
EgressRequestCount | Count | Sum | Region | ✔️ | |
EgressResponseTime | The time that it takes AWS Elemental MediaPackage to process each output request. If MediaPackage doesn't receive any requests for output in the specified interval, then no data is given. | Milliseconds | Multi | Channel | ✔️ |
EgressResponseTime | Milliseconds | Sum | Channel | ✔️ | |
EgressResponseTime | Count | Count | Channel | ||
EgressResponseTime | Milliseconds | Multi | Channel, OriginEndpoint | ✔️ | |
EgressResponseTime | Milliseconds | Sum | Channel, OriginEndpoint | ||
EgressResponseTime | Count | Count | Channel, OriginEndpoint | ||
IngressBytes | Number of bytes of content that AWS Elemental MediaPackage receives for each input request. If MediaPackage doesn't receive any requests for input in the specified interval, then no data is given. | Bytes | Multi | Channel | ✔️ |
IngressBytes | Bytes | Sum | Channel | ✔️ | |
IngressBytes | Count | Count | Channel | ||
IngressBytes | Bytes | Multi | Channel, IngestEndpoint | ✔️ | |
IngressBytes | Bytes | Sum | Channel, IngestEndpoint | ||
IngressBytes | Count | Count | Channel, IngestEndpoint | ||
IngressBytes | Bytes | Multi | Region | ||
IngressBytes | Bytes | Sum | Region | ||
IngressBytes | Count | Count | Region | ||
IngressResponseTime | The time that it takes AWS Elemental MediaPackage to process each input request. If MediaPackage doesn't receive any requests for input in the specified interval, then no data is given. | Milliseconds | Multi | Channel | ✔️ |
IngressResponseTime | Milliseconds | Sum | Channel | ✔️ | |
IngressResponseTime | Count | Count | Channel | ||
IngressResponseTime | Milliseconds | Multi | Channel, IngestEndpoint | ✔️ | |
IngressResponseTime | Milliseconds | Sum | Channel, IngestEndpoint | ||
IngressResponseTime | Count | Count | Channel, IngestEndpoint | ||
IngressResponseTime | Milliseconds | Multi | Region | ||
IngressResponseTime | Milliseconds | Sum | Region | ||
IngressResponseTime | Count | Count | Region |
AWS Elemental MediaPackage Video on Demand (VOD)
Name | Description | Unit | Statistics | Dimensions | Recommended |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
EgressBytes | Number of bytes that AWS Elemental MediaPackage successfully sends for each request. If MediaPackage doesn't receive any requests for output in the specified interval, then no data is given. | Bytes | Multi | PackagingConfiguration | ✔️ |
EgressBytes | Bytes | Sum | PackagingConfiguration | ✔️ | |
EgressBytes | Count | Count | PackagingConfiguration | ||
EgressRequestCount | Number of content requests that AWS Elemental MediaPackage receives. If MediaPackage doesn't receive any requests for output in the specified interval, then no data is given. | Count | Sum | PackagingConfiguration | ✔️ |
EgressRequestCount | Count | Sum | PackagingConfiguration, StatusCodeRange | ||
EgressResponseTime | The time that it takes AWS Elemental MediaPackage to process each output request. If MediaPackage doesn't receive any requests for output in the specified interval, then no data is given. | Milliseconds | Multi | PackagingConfiguration | ✔️ |
EgressResponseTime | Milliseconds | Sum | PackagingConfiguration | ✔️ | |
EgressResponseTime | Count | Count | PackagingConfiguration |